Bach Quotes

137 quotes by 112 authors

You play Bach your way, and Iâ€™ll play him his way. — Wanda Landowska
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God. — Gioachino Rossini
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing. — Gordon Getty
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard. — Johann Sebastian Bach
I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time. — Sean William Scott
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal;… — Bobby McFerrin
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy… — Jose Limon
Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. — Kevin Kline
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which… — Pablo Casals
I prefer Offenbach to Bach often. — Thomas Beecham
When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all,… — Pablo Casals
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful… — Claude Debussy
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God. — Gustav Mahler
I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted,… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in… — Robin G. Collingwood
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of… — Carson McCullers
Bach is the beginning and end of all music. — Max Reger
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me.… — Franz Liszt
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace. — Yo-Yo Ma

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