Musical Masterpiece Quotes

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock.

I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

'If I Loved You.' All the way. Totally intimidated by it. From the outside, it has this aura of being one of the greatest musical theater scenes ever written.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

'Astral Weeks' is a brilliant album, and songs like 'Moondance' are just beautiful lyrically.

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.

I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.