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

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The very essence of success is practice.

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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.

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski