Wildalone - Pg 16

   Only Chopin managed to bring out the piano's full ability to create extraordinary sound. He considered grandiosity vulgar. Loud playing--offensive. A frail man with a velvet touch, he devoted his life to a single instrument. And the result was phenomenal. Everything I hear now seems so insignificant that I would rather not hear it at all, wrote a well-known pianist after hearing Chopin play live. That was beyond all words. My senses have left me.