Technically he was highly gifted, but also severely limited. His music is well constructed and effective, but monotonous in texture, which consists in essence mainly of artificial and gushing tunes accompanied by a variety of figures derived from arpeggios. The enormous popular success some few of Rakhmaninoff's works had in his lifetime is not likely to last, and musicians never regarded it with much favour.
Eric Blom (ed.) Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th edn. (London: Macmillan, 1954) vol. 7, p. 27.
Criticism
„Dobré malířství jest hudbou, melodií.“
„Nejtrvalejší přátelství jsou založena na tom, že se lidé příliš dlouho příliš málo znají.“
Zdroj: [Kaňková, Markéta, Na Pražském jaru vystoupí Lang Lang, klavírista se slávou rockové hvězdy, rozhlas.cz, 2014-05-22, 2014-05-29, http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/hudba/_zprava/na-prazskem-jaru-vystoupi-lang-lang-klavirista-se-slavou-rockove-hvezdy--1353192]
„Překvapivě značnou část významných světových děl a událostí mají jak známo na svědomí malí muži.“
Lovci hlav
Originál: (en) What it comes down to for me is: Will the technologies of communication and culture — and especially popular music, which is a vast and beloved enterprise — help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?
Zdroj: Penthouse Magazine, září 1988 (anglicky)
Originál: (en) I had limited technical skills regarding the camera. Actually, I had no skills … I used a cheap commercial laboratory to blow up the pictures … I never went in a darkroom.
Zdroj: [Bates, Stephen, Richard Prince ordered to destroy lucrative artwork in copyright breach, guardian.co.uk, 2011-03-23, 2011-03-31, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/23/richard-prince-artwork-copyright-breach]
