Rachmaninov's Quotes

#1. Rachmaninov's hands were big. My hands are small. But only hands small.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

#2. My fish dream is a sex dream.

Joseph Heller

#3. America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

John Quincy Adams

#4. He was a six and a half foot scowl.
(on Rachmaninov)

Igor Stravinsky

#5. The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#6. Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.

Sean Astin

#7. The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

Samuel Lover

#8. My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves! I couldn't believe it. She took care of her records. Rachmaninov, Beefheart. For me, most of my records were out of their sleeves and in a drawer somewhere. I married a record collection.

Tom Waits

#9. Rock and roll is music," said Vanya.
"Prokofiev is music, Stravinski is music, Tchaikovski and Borodin and Rimski-Korsakov and even Rachmaninov, THEY are music. Rock and roll is smart boys with no respect, YOU are rock and roll.

Orson Scott Card

#10. You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

Paul Kantner

#11. Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

Matthew Bellamy

#12. Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.

R.J. Rushdoony

#13. Where you are is not who you are

Ursula Burns

#14. I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

George Ryan

#15. I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

Enya