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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. 
I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it. 
Before I was a genius I was a drudge. 
The very essence of success is practice. 
Fatherland before everything, art afterward. 
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. 
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 great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends. 
The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty. 
You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo. 
Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy. 
Art must be a slow and normal evolution. 
When one is an artist, what else can he be? 
Art is the expression of the immortal part of man. 
Music is the only art that actually lives. 
Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic. 