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.
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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.
All our awareness starts from feelings.
As art springs from personality, so it is only to personality that it can be revealed, and from the meeting of the two comes right interpretation.
Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love.
I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for life."
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6: 30 A. M. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
Only who doesn't know pain can laugh of who suffers.
Laughing and joking does not always mean to be happy, sometimes laughing and joking to forget that it wants to cry.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.