"Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one - that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process."

-- Sergei Rachmaninoff

#Creative Quotes #Musical Quotes #Important Quotes

“He's one kind of person, you're another. When life is going along normally, you're sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there's a crisis, suddenly you're completely different people.”

Source : Michael Grant (2014). “Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light”, p.109, Harper Collins
“I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.”
“Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.”

Source : "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, February 11, 2003.
“When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
“Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.”
“Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.”
“I love great animation.”
“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

You may also like:

Alexander Scriabin
Composer
Claude Debussy
Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
Franz Liszt
Composer
Frederic Chopin
Composer
Johannes Brahms
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
Sergei Prokofiev
Ballet composer