Quotes About Bach

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.

For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.

I think that Bach has a very nice sound on the lute. But I find that what I want to do with Bach is best revealed on the guitar.

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

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

The first music I got really into was Bach.

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.

We are huge Bach fans, and huge Glenn Gould fans.

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

Johann Sebastian Bach once said that the only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit.

He built an architecture of Bach, stone by exquisite stone, raising a music cathedral so vast

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.

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.

I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.

I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.

There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It's wonderful music. It's - on a grand scale, there's a lot to it. There are - I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things, you know, that surprise me every time.

He was going to suck my blood!" "Which is what we do to anyone when we say we'll be hurt if they don't live our way.

I sighed. "Yeah. OK. Forget the question." "I'll forget it. My question is, can you?" He looked at me as though he hadn't a care in the world.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.