Top 300 Bach Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.
I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.
I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
My teacher was still practicing Bach until his death at 89. I have no doubt that if I live that long, I'll be doing the same thing.
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.
I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
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.
For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.
We consciously tend to listen to stuff that is further than what we do. We listen to Bach.
Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.
I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
People-watching in New York while listening to Bach is kind of amazing.
I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.
What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.
I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.
I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.
Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar.
I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.
My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.
I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.
Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
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.
Bach and Beethoven erected temples and churches on the heights. I only wanted to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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.
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.
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female.
Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.
Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.
Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?
I had three older sisters whose record collections I borrowed, so I was listening to The Velvet Underground as well as Bach and brass band music.
