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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music al...more

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artist...more

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If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

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tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgott...more

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Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather an other chaos, t...more