Song Quotes by Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to…

— 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,…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

— 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

Music is the only art that actually lives.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski