“All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)” — Arnold Bax Copy Share Image
For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything. — Pablo Casals 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
I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection. — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him. — Albert Schweitzer 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
“Not all musicians believe in God, but they all believe in Johann Sebastian Bach” — Mauricio Kagel Copy Share Image
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it… — Pablo Casals 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
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not… — Pablo Casals 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
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
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach.… — Karen DeCrow 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 the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a… — Russell Sherman 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
“In his imaginative response to Luther’s text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then… — Paul McCartney 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
“Oh well,' said Jack: and then, 'Did you ever meet Bach?' 'Which Bach?' 'London Bach.' 'Not I.' 'I did. He wrote some… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Bach's music confront the player and the audience in a very alone way, and I try at that moment to put away… — Christian Tetzlaff Copy Share Image
![“Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you…” quote by Paul McCartney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f78/paul-mccartney-987_add_bach-was-so-mathematical-and-i-liked-thi_2562058.jpg)
