Bach Quotes

137 quotes by 112 authors

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
Study Bach. There you will find everything. — Johannes Brahms
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo,… — Dmitri Shostakovich
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your… — Paul McCreesh
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting. — Lewis Thomas
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. — Helmut Walcha
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day… — Coleman Hawkins
Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection. — Jeremy Denk
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other… — Howard Roberts
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be… — Jimi Hendrix
... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was… — Yngwie Malmsteen
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the… — Frederic Chopin
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats,… — David Cronenberg
Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused,… — Otto Weininger
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy… — Edvard Grieg
When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach. — Oliver Sacks
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other,… — Miles Davis
Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do… — Ruggiero Ricci
Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be… — T Bone Burnett

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