Bach Quote by Lewis Thomas

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

— Marilynne Robinson

We consciously tend to listen to stuff that is further than what we do. We listen to Bach.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also…

— Colm Toibin

I own a fart CD. It has, I believe, over 100 fart sounds. A lovely variety, from the up-close and personal to the more…

— Simon Helberg

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on…

— David Amram

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

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

— Lewis Thomas

Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have…

— Lewis Thomas

Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land,…

— Austin Kleon

When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their…

— Jim Rash

“Men's brains may be bigger, but women's contain more brain cells. Also, male and female brains work differently. When men and women perform identical…

— Dr. Kevin Leman

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

— Gillian Flynn

Maybe if we lie down our brains will work.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Eventually, we need to have computers that work differently from the way they do today and have for the past 60-plus years. We're capturing…

— Kevin Maney