Quotes by Sergei Rachmaninoff

“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.””

“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.””

“Music is enough for a whole lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.””

“Since January of 1895 all his energies and hopes had been concentrated on a symphony based on traditional chants of the Russian Orthodox Service.””