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Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (Polish: [iɡˈnat͡sɨ ˈjan padɛˈrɛfskʲi]; 18 November [O.S. 6 November] 1860 – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist and composer, politician, statesman and spokesman for Polish independence. He was a favorite of concert audiences around the world. His musical fame opened access to diplomacy and the media.

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The very essence of success is practice.

Essence, Practice, Success

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.

Father, Son, People, Fathers, Enraptured, Fresh

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

Believe, Certain, Poetry, Way

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

Devices, Invents, Lazy, Man, Men, Saving

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

Chopin, Listening, Race, Voice, Whole

Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

Knows, Know, Invalid, Volcanic, Music, Chopin

I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!

Believe, Dream, Light, Precious, Struggle, Worse

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

America, Country, I Loved You, Loved

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

Art, Evolution, Normal, Slow

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

Missing, Notice, Practice, Three, Two

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?

Art, Choices, Devote, Reach, Short, Want

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.

Day, Knows, One Day, Practice, Three, Two

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.

Day, Leadership, Orchestra, Practice, Sports, World

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

Genuinely, Home, Imagine, Music, Without Music

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

Commercial, Follows, Intellectual, Isolation

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

Audience, Knowing, Nerves, Shake, Waiting, Waits

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.

Known, Might, Realization, Satisfaction

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

Accomplishment, Added, Beginnings, Mean, Play

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

Art, Men, Expression, Immortal, Man

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

Dream, Like, Littles, Nothing, Realizing

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