Sergei Rachmaninoff Quotes

#1. Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

Aaron Zigman

#2. The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Although love is communicated in a number of ways,our words often reflect the condition of our heart.

Jennifer Dion

#4. The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

Christian Louboutin

#5. Every time you have an orgasm an angel comes to life.

Chloe Thurlow

#6. A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#7. Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#8. My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#9. The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#10. The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#11. To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Andre Breton

#12. She hadn't wanted this and yet deep down inside, she knew that she did, and that was what scared her more than anything.

Julie Lessman

#13. Welcome, thou kind deceiver!
Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key,
Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,
Even steal us from ourselves.

John Dryden

#14. I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#15. Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth ... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!

Wyndham Lewis

#16. What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#17. Its like if you take acid, it burns out brain cells and they dont regrow. Rock is like that-it has killed beautiful people musically, physically and mentally.

Marc Bolan

#18. We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

Tommy Hilfiger

#19. How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

Indira Gandhi

#20. 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

#21. I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#22. I know my fans look up to me and that's why I make my songs so personal; it's all about things I've experienced and things I like or hate. I write for myself and hope that my fans like what I have to say.

Avril Lavigne

#23. This is not to say that the Muslims were more brutal or less tolerant than were Christians or Jews, for it was a brutal and intolerant age. It is to say that efforts to portray Muslims as enlightened supporters of multiculturalism are at best ignorant.

Rodney Stark

#24. Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

Dan Kildee

#25. The new humanity that is created around Jesus is not a humanity that is always going to be successful and in control of things, but a humanity that can reach out its hand from the depths of chaos, to be touched by the hand of God.

Rowan Williams