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Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
America, the country of my heart, my second home.
— 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
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
Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Rhythm is the pulse of music.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Fatherland before everything, art afterward.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Music is the only art that actually lives.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
When one is an artist, what else can he be?
— 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
I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Art must be a slow and normal evolution.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
The very essence of success is practice.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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
The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski