Top 1200 Bach's Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream, it strengthens my creativity.

People-watching in New York while listening to Bach is kind of amazing.

For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!

B.B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.

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

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and I don't think God really would be all that interested. I'm sure when Bach wrote for the greater glory of God, he really didn't think that God was going to sit down at breakfast and listen to his cantatas. I think he meant for higher purposes than earning a living.

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

Music is my life. Music runs through my veins. Music inspires me. Music is a part of me. Music is all around us. Music soothes me. Music gives me hope when I lose faith. Music comforts me. Music is my refuge.

Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.

As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz stars, both now and in the past...how shall I say it? These guys are as great as Bach, Beethoven; all of them. People don't know it yet. If jazz survives and is put on a pedestal as an art form, the same as classical music has been through the years, a hundred years from now the kids will know who they were, with that kind of respect.

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?

I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar.

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.

I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

I used to love Bach.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

G.O.O.D. Music is on top because G.O.O.D. Music is the culture. When you think of, you know, just every aspect from music, influence, fashion, art level. If it's not G.O.O.D Music, then it's somebody who was influenced heavily by G.O.O.D. Music.