Closest Quote by Aaron Copland

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play…

— Glenn Gould

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play…

— Glenn Gould

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

— Jeremy Denk

I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also…

— Andrew W.K

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.

— Hilary Hahn

J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual…

— Brian Wilson

When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

— R. Kelly

Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear,…

— Pablo Casals

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

— Sid Bernstein

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of…

— Frederic Chopin

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most…

— Charles Gounod

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so…

— Nigel Kennedy