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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

Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach. — Rivers Cuomo

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

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway. — Sebastian Bach

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again. — Andrew Bird

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

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God. — Gustav Mahler

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

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

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 write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. — Sebastian Bach

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson

There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk. — Maira Kalman

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. — 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

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit. — Johann Sebastian Bach

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music. — Dave Brubeck

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. — Emil Cioran

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

My thesis statement would be - Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. — Chris Thile

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe. — Douglas Adams

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

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa. — Eleanor Bron

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

All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine.
(on Bach) — Arnold Bax

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace. — Yo-Yo Ma

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. — Johann Sebastian Bach

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like. — Alain De Botton