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… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
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… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
