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. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.Oscar Wilde
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When I play Chopin's Nocturne in E Flat Minor, it is as if I have been weeping over sins that I have never committed, and mourning over tragedies that are not my own. As I play this beautiful piece of music, the words of John Donne become clear to me. He wrote: It is a melancholy thing to grow old.
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