Bach Quotes

137 quotes by 112 authors

No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach — Mauricio Kagel
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again. — Andrew Bird
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I… — Kathleen Battle
When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at… — David Amram
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach… — Lukas Foss
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music,… — Gyorgy Ligeti
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues… — Pablo Casals
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
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins. — Hans von Bulow
The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of… — George Steiner
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life. — Helen Hayes
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,… — C.S. Lewis
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple,… — Charles Mingus
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work. — Isaac Mizrahi
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. — Ernest Newman
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. — Sun Ra
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called… — Pierre Schaeffer
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher… — Nina Simone
I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine. — Jessica Simpson

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