Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, GBEwas a Polish pianist and composer, politician, and spokesman for Polish independence. He was a favorite of concert audiences around the globe. His musical fame opened access to diplomacy and the media...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth6 November 1860
CountryPoland
art technique invertebrates
Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
mean play accomplishment
Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.
spiritual woe steps
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
knows
Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.
cutting men doe
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.
art music-is
Music is the only art that actually lives.
dream believe thinking
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.
talking behavior standards
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
art normal evolution
Art must be a slow and normal evolution.
country powerful past
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.
mind duty summoning
The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
dream believe struggle
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!
voice race listening
The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.
luck secret sucess
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.