Knows Quote by Ignacy Jan Paderewski Download Open image “Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.” — Ignacy Jan Paderewski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knows Music
I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa. — Eleanor Bron Copy Share Image
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And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music. — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
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