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.

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 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.

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.

Past success secures future failure if we continue to bask in its glow for too long

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

I've gotten more than two million votes more than anybody else.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.

Probably because I'm bald. Don't the bald people always play doctors and principals? Yeah, isn't that funny? And lawyers. A lot of lawyers and judges.

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood.