Ignace Jan Paderewski Quotes

“Before I was a genius I was a drudge.”

“Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.”

“I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.”

“You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.”

“I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.”

“Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.”

“A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.”

“No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.”

“I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.”

“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”