"Messieurs, I should like to be granted the favour of performing at one of your admirable concerts, and this I beg to ask of you. Trusting, since I lack other qualifications to obtain this, in your goodwill towards artists, I dare to hope that you will greet my request favourably, I have the honour to be, Messieurs, your very humble servant. Frédéric Chopin Cité Bergère, No. 4"

"My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country."

"I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me."

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

"One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality."

"Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher."

"Ganymede (1919)"

"N'importe (1919)"

"Ganymède (1919)"

"Vagabond (1919)"

"No matter (1919)"

"Baedecker (1919)"