Bach Quotes

137 quotes by 112 authors

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's… — George Steiner
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of… — Igor Stravinsky
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a… — Lewis Thomas
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad. — Lewis Thomas
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I… — Edward Weston
I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg… — John Zorn
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some… — Colm Toibin
Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun. — Walt Disney
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like… — Douglas Adams
What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The… — Erich Segal
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or… — J. G. Ballard
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As… — Pablo Casals
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more.… — Henry Miller
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. — Frederic Chopin
Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little… — Anne Lamott
I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.-Tana Bach-page 29-chapter 4 — Holly Black
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale. — Simone Weil
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. — Gregory Maguire
I like Bach. I like Randy Newman. — David Mamet

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