Ignacy Jan Paderewski Quotes

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

I work in silence.

I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

I don’t want people chitting and chatting. Once the game starts, we watch football.

One has to work quietly with lot of commitment.

My dad, since I was growing up, has always taught me that I need to keep my mouth shut and just play baseball.

I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. That is the best answer.

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

Shut Up and Play your Guitar.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is you’re doing, it needs to stop while you write... A lot of the time (and this is fully goofy to admit), I’ll write with earplugs in - even if it’s dead silent at home.

Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed