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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

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 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

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

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

To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach. — Thomas Bernhard

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

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — 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

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

Metal is still the biggest music now in America. — Sebastian Bach

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art. — Heitor Villa-Lobos

Did anyone tell Toscanini, or Bach, that he had to choose between music and family, between art and a normal life? — Elisabeth Mann Borgese

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

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

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

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. — Johann Sebastian Bach

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ? — Tex Sample

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop. — Donald Byrd

Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure. — Emil Cioran

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

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

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