Song Quotes by Johann Sebastian Bach

Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul;…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

A Composition on the Piano

— Johann Sebastian Bach

My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“The aim and final reason of all music should be none else but the glory of God and refreshing the soul. Where this is…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“Soli Deo Gloria”

— Johann Sebastian Bach

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!

— Johann Sebastian Bach