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• In order to compose, all you need do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

• The talent works, the genius creates.

• If that's what your jokes sound like, I'm afraid to hear what your serious pieces sound like.
  • letter to Chopin after hearing Scherzo number 2 in B Flat Minor

• Hats off gentlemen; a genius.
  • Comment after hearing an early set of variations by Chopin.