Energy Quote by Russell Mael

As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts.

— Ludovico Einaudi

In my early music-loving days, I thought Beethoven was a bit bombastic, a bit heroic, a bit, well, big.

— Sheila Hancock

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony…

— Daniel Barenboim

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my…

— Dean Koontz

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

If you looked at my music collection and saw an album that was a soundtrack to a musical, it's probably because I had bought…

— Carmen Cusack

“Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy…

— Tomoko Ninomiya

As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you feel good.…

— Raekwon

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of…

— Kenny G

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and…

— H. L. Mencken

In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make…

— Dave Grohl