Bach Quotes
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Bach Quotes & Sayings
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That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.
— Richard Bach
If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?
— Richard Bach
Bach is Bach just as God is God.
— Hector Berlioz
Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.
— Richard Bach
We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.
— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.
— Howard Bach
I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.
— Sebastian Bach
Hate is love without enough data.
— Richard Bach
No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
— Richard Bach
How is it we're the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?
— Richard Bach
There is something that is transcendental about when we are immersed in that which we most love.
— Richard Bach
This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
— Frederic Chopin
Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach
— Mauricio Kagel
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.
— Richard Bach
There was a lot I didn't understand about messiahs.
— Richard Bach
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
— Lewis Thomas
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
— Richard Bach
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
— Richard Bach
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
— Richard Bach
What'll be your biography? "At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert your name) did a surprising thing...
— Richard Bach
Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures
— Kent Bach
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
— Richard Bach
The simplest things are often the truest.
— Richard Bach
What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.
— Richard Bach
Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.
— Richard Bach
I used to love Bach.
— Josh Silver
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
— Donald Byrd
It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.
— Jools Holland
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
— Candy Crowley
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
— Jack Black
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
— Holly Black
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
— Richard Bach
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
— Richard Bach
We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.
— Richard Bach
I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.
— Sebastian Bach
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
— Nigel Kennedy
The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.
— Richard Bach
And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our healing.
— Edward Bach
Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know
— Jack Bruce
True enjoy stories never ever have endings.
— Richard Bach
If it's not televised, there's no way Americans will know about competitive badminton. All they know is the back-yard thing.
— Howard Bach
Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.
— Richard Bach
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.
— Charles Gounod
Reality is divinely indifferent.
— Richard Bach
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
— Richard Bach
Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.
— Richard Bach
Pride, lust, and whiskey are a potent combination.
— Rachel Bach
Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.
— Sebastian Bach
Study Bach. There you will find everything.
— Johannes Brahms
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.
— Richard Bach
Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.
— Richard Bach
Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.
— James Marcus Bach
He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them
— Richard Bach
I'm convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy.
— Douglas Adams
Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor
— Neal Stephenson
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
— Pierre Schaeffer
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.
— Roger Fry
[Bach is the] reason I became a musician
— Glenn Gould
We see with our brains, not with our eyes.
— Paul Bach-y-Rita
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.
— Richard Bach
But if you think there's a man anywhere who can make me do anything I don't want to do, you haven't been paying attention.
— Rachel Bach
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
— Michael Tilson Thomas
We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.
— Richard Bach
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
— Richard Bach
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
— Richard Bach
There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.
— Francis Schaeffer
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.
— Seymour Stein
I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.
— Sybil Thorndike
On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Time means nothing.Time is just the way we measure the gaps between not knowing something and knowing it or not doing something and doing it.
— Richard Bach