I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa. — Eleanor Bron Copy Share Image
“All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)” — Arnold Bax Copy Share Image
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
“If you ever desire to gain the mastery over any skill and talent, then, you must convert as much time as Sebastian… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression. — Camille Saint-Saens Copy Share Image
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach. — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says. "Yes, Planet… — Bill Hayes Copy Share Image
Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a… — Maurice Jarre Copy Share Image
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do… — David Russell Copy Share Image
“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
“The exquisite world of imagination opened up by any powerful music is itself problematic, for it tempts listeners to put into words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now that music is faithfully reproducible, musicians are not needed as once they were. And music itself has changed. Though small cadres… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Bach, of course, was my first love. He still is. I mean, he's the man of my life, that's for sure. And… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Not today! No, never again would she sit by the window, her back turned so she would not see him walk down… — John Franklin Bardin Copy Share Image
The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art. — Heitor Villa-Lobos Copy Share Image
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
