"I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi." "Here, waltzes are called works!" "A composer for the right hand." "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." "He was dying all his life." "Hats off, gentleman, a genius!" |