47 Quotes by Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

The very essence of success is practice.

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

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.

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.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.