15 quotes found
Pianist · Polish · 1887–1982
Polish pianist (1887–1982)
“Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.”
“I have found that if you love life life will love you back.”
“...In his fingers he has more skill than any of the rest of us.”
“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.”
“Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings”
“To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.”
“Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.”
“I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.”
“To be alive to be able to see to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.”
“I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.”
“Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence, nature, God, or what I would call the power of creation seems to favo...”
“Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.”
“We don't know happiness without unhappiness, gaiety without sadness, and happiness can only be felt if you don't set any conditions.”