You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen? — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa. — Eleanor Bron Copy Share Image
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God. — Gustav Mahler 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
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
I was trained completely by ear. And it was actually diving into the Bach that led me to get - there was… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. — Frederic Chopin 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
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 spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes,… — Caroline Shaw 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
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
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
It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach -… — Rafal Blechacz 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
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the… — Frederic Chopin 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
“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 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
“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
“I should have perished of despair in my youth but for the world created for me by that great German dynasty which… — Anonymous 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
![“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)
