Bad Quote by Lewis Thomas

“Now that music is faithfully reproducible, musicians are not needed as once they were. And music itself has changed. Though small cadres of classicists…

— Mark Helprin

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to…

— Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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 really the ultimate in bass players you know

— Jack Bruce

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

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

— Edith Hamilton

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

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.

— Victor Borge

“The exquisite world of imagination opened up by any powerful music is itself problematic, for it tempts listeners to put into words the feelings…

— Anonymous

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

— Max Reger

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

— Laurence Equilbey

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian…

— Aaron Copland