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“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

“All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)”

— Arnold Bax

“You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach." I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I…

— Dodie Smith

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

I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.

— Nina Simone

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

— Yo-Yo Ma

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

“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’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.”

— Emil Cioran

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

— Hector Berlioz

“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

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