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
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
My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it… — Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics,… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It's wonderful music. It's - on a grand scale, there's a lot… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues,… — Vladimir Horowitz 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
One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
“Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Jobs tended to be deeply moved by artists who displayed purity, and he became a fan. He invited Ma to play at… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music. — Frantisek Kupka Copy Share Image
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick! — Candy Crowley Copy Share Image
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. — Helmut Walcha Copy Share Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
