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
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?
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.
inspirational practice missing
When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.
leadership sports practice
If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.
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.
genius
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
knows
Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.
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.
mean play accomplishment
Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.
father son people
Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.
effort soul mind
True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.
essence practice
The very essence of success is practice.
pulse rhythm
Rhythm is the pulse of music.
sadness joy firsts
Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.