Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes
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If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.
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The very essence of success is practice.
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America, the country of my heart, my second home.
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Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.
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Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
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Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
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Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
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Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
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I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.
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Music is the only art that actually lives.
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.
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The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.
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Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.
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If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.
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I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?