Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.
Ignacy Jan PaderewskiIt 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?
Ignacy Jan PaderewskiThere 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.
Ignacy Jan PaderewskiThe mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski