The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.
I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.
When one is an artist, what else can he be?
Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
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.