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
men expression voice
Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.
art men expression
Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.
inspirational practice missing
When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.
art choices want
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?
pain suffering misery
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?
intellectual isolation
Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
country america i-loved-you
I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
inspirational ivory piano
Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
dream littles realizing
I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.
believe way certain
I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.
art fatherland
Fatherland before everything, art afterward.
men two three
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.
genius
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
practice two one-day
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.