Bach's Music Quotes
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Bach's Music Quotes & Sayings
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I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
— Gregory Maguire
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
— Gordon Getty
Bach is the beginning and end of all music.
— Max Reger
What is music for? It's to make you feel good.
— Sebastian Bach
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
— James Brown
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy
— Jimi Hendrix
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.
— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.
— Thomas Beecham
I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.
— Frantisek Kupka
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
— Anne Stevenson
I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.
— Sebastian 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
Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.
— Robert Schumann
Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.
— Joshua Bell
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.
— Charles Gounod
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
— Donald Byrd
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Each time we explore Bach's music we feel as if we have traveled great distances to, and through, a remote but entrancing soundscape
— John Eliot Gardiner
The most stupendous miracle in all music.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
— Michael Tilson Thomas
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
— Marilynne Robinson
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit. — Johann Sebastian Bach
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
It is the special province of music to move the heart.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.
— Thomas Bernhard
Did anyone tell Toscanini, or Bach, that he had to choose between music and family, between art and a normal life?
— Elisabeth Mann Borgese
The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.
— Heitor Villa-Lobos
Metal is still the biggest music now in America.
— Sebastian Bach
Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?
— Tex Sample
Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.
— Emil Cioran
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 final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
