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Former Prime Minister Of Poland Inspirational Quotes (33)

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I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.
Marek Belka
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Fatherland before everything, art afterward.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Art must be a slow and normal evolution.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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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.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Music is the only art that actually lives.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Rhythm is the pulse of music.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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America, the country of my heart, my second home.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
Marek Belka
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Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Change follows change in us, almost without transition we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing, then I hope that people will also get less worried about the future of inflation.
Marek Belka
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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.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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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.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.
Wojciech Jaruzelski
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