Bach Quotes

137 quotes by 112 authors

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical… — Emile M. Cioran
Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know — Jack Bruce
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. — Frederic Chopin
Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who… — Frederic Chopin
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as… — Frederic Chopin
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, — Donald Byrd
Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music.… — Sergei Prokofiev
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when… — Freeman Dyson
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… — Glenn Gould
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and… — Antonio Damasio
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid. — Charles Gounod
The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary… — Pablo Casals
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie… — Ennio Morricone
Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself,… — Woody Allen
There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all… — Fergie
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson
Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian. — Roger Fry
See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.… — Mary Anne Radmacher
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has… — Lincoln Steffens

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