Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes About Soul
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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!
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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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.
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- Born: November 18, 1860
- Died: June 29, 1941
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of Poland