The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art. Ignacy Jan Paderewski More Quotes by Ignacy Jan Paderewski More Quotes From Ignacy Jan Paderewski 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. Ignacy Jan Paderewski practice missing two I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it. Ignacy Jan Paderewski without-music imagine home 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 to success. Ignacy Jan Paderewski sucess luck secret You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo. Ignacy Jan Paderewski poor soul play The very essence of success is practice. Ignacy Jan Paderewski essence practice 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's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery? Ignacy Jan Paderewski pain suffering helping 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. Ignacy Jan Paderewski powerful country past Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own. Ignacy Jan Paderewski dream believe thinking 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! Ignacy Jan Paderewski struggle dream believe The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race. Ignacy Jan Paderewski voice race listening Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy. Ignacy Jan Paderewski sadness joy firsts When one is an artist, what else can he be? Ignacy Jan Paderewski artist Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. Ignacy Jan Paderewski ivory keys inspirational Fatherland before everything, art afterward. Ignacy Jan Paderewski fatherland art 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 knows it. Ignacy Jan Paderewski leadership practice sports Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic. Ignacy Jan Paderewski knows Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers. Ignacy Jan Paderewski father people son 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 realizes the value of artistic tradition. Ignacy Jan Paderewski cutting doe men Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual. Ignacy Jan Paderewski individual bears art 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. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original. Ignacy Jan Paderewski effort soul mind
