Rachmaninov Quotes & Sayings

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

I give him a strange look. Just a second ago he was grousing, and now he's happy as a clam. I don't get boys. — Jenny Han

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people. — Garth Risk Hallberg

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

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie. — Enya

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

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news. — Walter Lippmann

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

'How big's your dick?' Zak blurted.
His father gave a roar of outrage.
'How good's your dental plan?' asked Number Five.
Zak laughed.
'You can't ask that,' his father snapped at his side.
'My favorite composer is Rachmaninov. My last client moved to New Zealand. There's nothing stuck to my shoe. I had fruit for breakfast and I don't waste my time worrying. I make sure there's never anything to worry about.' He walked across the room and put his mouth close to Zak's ear. 'In answer to your last. How responsive's your gag reflex?' — Barbara Elsborg

There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one".
I love that scene.
That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again.
That's fighting. — JohnA Passaro

chasing silly rose leaves — Rudyard Kipling

He was a six and a half foot scowl.
(on Rachmaninov) — Igor Stravinsky

He couldn't grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands. — Kelly Moran

Rachmaninov's hands were big. My hands are small. But only hands small. — Richard Hyung-ki Joo