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.

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.

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

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

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.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The very essence of success is practice.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

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

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

You become what you think about all day long.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.