Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy. Ignacy Jan Paderewski More Quotes by Ignacy Jan Paderewski More Quotes From Ignacy Jan Paderewski Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought. Ignacy Jan Paderewski languagespiritualworld Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless. Ignacy Jan Paderewski invertebratestechniqueart There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better. Ignacy Jan Paderewski realizationsatisfactionmight America, the country of my heart, my second home. Ignacy Jan Paderewski homeheartcountry 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 choiceswantart
