Impromptus Chopin Quotes

#1. There was no one thing in the world that she desired. There was no human being whom she wanted near her except Robert; and she even realized that the day would come when he, too, and the thought of him would melt out of her existence, leaving her alone. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#2. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#3. Schubert Impromptus that Louise Bogan gave me - Opus 90 and Opus 142, Gieseking. #Quote by May Sarton

#4. The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#5. Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#6. Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#7. Where the piano is, there is one's treasure, as far as I am concerned....nothing, surely, is more delightful than sitting down at the piano on a summer day, and playing Chopin or Debussy while the natural sunlight drifts over one's shoulders through the vines outside, creating a filigree of shadow in the printed page...a shifting pattern of ghostly leaf and blossom that dances to the mood of the music. #Quote by Beverley Nichols

#8. Prior to my second stint in Perpignan, I was a fine diner and as I saw it, food was art. At vocational school, I was being taught how to cook, but I was frustrated by how basic the dishes were. I was like a kid who had grown up listening to Chopin, then showed up at music school, never having actually played an instrument. I mean, when you listen to Chopin all the time, you want to become Chopin. And then you go to music school and all you're doing is plunking out do...re... mi for hours at a time. It's boring as hell, and not why you enrolled. I was impatient to create great meals and not so excited about starting with the basics. Why were we spending hours learning how to hold a knife or mine a shallot when we could be making nouvelle cuisine? True, I didn't know how to cut a chicken in eight pieces or make a bechamel. But in the two- and three-start restaurants I had been to, they were way over the bechamel. Still, there I was, in school, making the most basic of dishes--salade Nicoise, potato-leek soup, an omelette. #Quote by Eric Ripert

#9. I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#10. A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#11. Play Mozart in memory of me. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#12. Beside being a respectable woman she was a very sensible one; and she knew there are some battles in life which a human being must fight alone. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#13. Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that everyone thinks like that; indeed, nearly everyone laughs about it; but only waltzes get printed. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#14. She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#15. She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. She waited in vain. She saw no pictures of solitude, of hope, of longing, or of despair. But the very passions themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid body. She trembled, she was choking, and the tears blinded her. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#16. She was moved by a kind of commiseration ... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#17. So imagine a fire going
wood snapping the way it does when it's a little green - the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains
and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys
and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning.
And so you dare to be happy.
You do that thing.
You dare. #Quote by Steven Millhauser

#18. The heart jealous of the soul! #Quote by Kate Chopin

#19. The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#20. You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#21. Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#22. All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure. #Quote by Joseph Joubert

#23. I tell you a secret about Chopin, piano is his best friend. More. He tells piano all his secrets." - piano teacher Eleanora Sivan. #Quote by Anna Goldsworthy

#24. Mrs. Pontellier liked to sit and gaze at her fair companion as she might look upon a faultless Madonna. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#25. So the storm passed and every one was happy. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#26. He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#27. I hope you won't completely forget me. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#28. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#29. Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long? #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#30. Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#31. I shall create a new world for myself. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#32. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#33. Here, whatever is not boring is not English. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#34. I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#35. Daisies, just starting to close their petals, littered the grass like fallen stars. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#36. We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#37. Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#38. She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#39. She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like that before. and if she had submitted to his command. Of course she had; she remembered that she had. But she could not realise why or how she should have yielded, feeling as she then did. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#40. It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you. #Quote by Frederic Chopin

#41. I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? #Quote by Kate Chopin

#42. Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children; or for anyone.
I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#43. A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#44. She was always talking about her "condition." Her "condition" was in no way apparent, and no one would have known a thing about it but for her persistence in making it the subject of conversation. #Quote by Kate Chopin

#45. Kalkbrenner has made me an offer; that I should study with him for three years, and he will make something really - really out of me. I answered that I know how much I lack; but that I cannot exploit him, and three years is too much. But he has convinced me that I can play admirably when I am in the mood, and badly when I am not; a thing which never happens to him. After close examination he told me that I have no school; that I am on an excellent road, but can slip off the track. That after his death, or when he finally stops playing, there will be no representative of the great piano-forte school. That even if I wish it, I cannot build up a new school without knowing the old one; in a word : that I am not a perfected machine, and that this hampers the flow of my thoughts. That I have a mark in composition; that it would be a pity not to become what I have the promise of being ... #Quote by Frederic Chopin