Bach Quote by Jeremy Denk

If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era…

— Jane Goodall

“We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human…

— Jane Goodall

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

— Lewis Thomas

“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.”

— Thomas Bernhard

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything complete -…

— Charlie Haden

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that…

— Ezra Pound

“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his brilliant peer…

— John Eliot Gardiner

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the…

— Ennio Morricone

Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the…

— Howard Roberts

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each…

— Miles Davis