I loved your country [America] before I knew it..

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..

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 reali….

The very essence of success is practice..

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..

Fatherland before everything, art afterward..

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….

Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress..

Rhythm is the pulse of music..

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race..

Music is the only art that actually lives..

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure.….

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it..

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished..

When one is an artist, what else can he be?.

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 t….

Before I was a genius I was a drudge..

If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience ….

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 k….

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces..

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo..