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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?

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

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

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

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The very essence of success is practice.

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

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Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

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Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

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