I keep hearing I should play louder. Babe, if you wanted a cannon, you should have invited Liszt. by Frédéric Chopin

That was not a salon, that was a battlefield with better lighting.

I am begging the nineteenth century to discover whispering.

Impossible, Frédéric. You dated drama and still called yourself delicate.

You say that like volume is a flaw and not a personality trait.

Both of you are unbearable, but only one of you needed a whole salon to be heard.