Civilized Quote by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

— Robert Schumann

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

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

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

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

— Gregory Maguire

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional…

— Nigel Kennedy

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play…

— Glenn Gould

I used to love Bach.

— Josh Silver

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

— Max Reger

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced…

— Brian Wilson

J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual…

— Brian Wilson

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is…

— Pierre Schaeffer