A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other.
Musicians
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Born in Russia in 1873, Sergei Rachmaninoff later settled in the United States as one of the last great representatives of late Romanticism. Also ranked among the finest pianists of the twentieth century, he suffered a four-year creative collapse after his Symphony No. 1's disastrous premiere, recovering through hypnotherapy to complete his celebrated Piano Concerto No. 2. After leaving Russia permanently following the Revolution, he devoted himself primarily to performing while preserving the Romantic tradition to the end.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff's Other Quotes
What was important to my composing was that I spent my childhood in the heart of Russia.
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
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.
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.
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