There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.
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.
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.
The very essence of success is practice. - Ignacy Jan Paderewski
The very essence of success is practice.
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.
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.
Before I was a genius I was a drudge. - Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
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.
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