I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!
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
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
America, the country of my heart, my second home.
Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress. - Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.
The very essence of success is practice. - Ignacy Jan Paderewski
The very essence of success is practice.
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 am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.
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
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.
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking. - Ignacy Jan Paderewski
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Art must be a slow and normal evolution. - Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Art must be a slow and normal evolution.
Before I was a genius I was a drudge. - Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
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