In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world…

For many years the stakes were clear. There were the Arabs attacking us and us defending ourselves, so basically there were no real problems…

— Shimon Peres

“Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out?…

— Walker Percy

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

— Lewis Thomas

“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.”

— Thomas Bernhard

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything complete -…

— Charlie Haden

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that…

— Ezra Pound

“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his brilliant peer…

— John Eliot Gardiner

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the…

— Howard Roberts

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each…

— Miles Davis

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of…

— Nigel Kennedy

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

— Marilynne Robinson

“You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach." I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I…

— Dodie Smith