Failure Quote by Emil Cioran

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

— Edith Hamilton

“In his imaginative response to Luther’s text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words from start…

— John Eliot Gardiner

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

— Max Reger

“THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Not all musicians believe in God, but they all believe in Johann Sebastian Bach”

— Mauricio Kagel

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that…

— Edith Hamilton

Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear,…

— Pablo Casals

The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery…

— Russell Sherman

“I'm convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy.”

— Douglas Adams

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

— Charles Gounod

“BACH! A colossal syllable, one which makes composers tremble, brings performers to their knees, beatifies the Bach-lover, and apparently bores the daylights out of…

— Paul Elie