Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes
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Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes & Sayings
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A Composition on the Piano
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Harmony is next to Godliness
— Johann 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
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development ... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
— Lewis Thomas
The most stupendous miracle in all music.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit. — Johann Sebastian Bach
of the human spirit. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
B. B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.
— Ilana Mercer
Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed ... equally well.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
— 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
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
It is the special province of music to move the heart.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Face to the reality.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
— Lewis Thomas
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!
— Johann Sebastian Bach
I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.
— Johann Sebastian Bach