Frédéric Chopin

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.
-Frédéric Chopin

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
-Frédéric Chopin

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
-Frédéric Chopin

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
-Frédéric Chopin