Quotes About Bach

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

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 Bach.

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

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

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

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

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

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

The little Prelude in C Major that starts the set is one of Bach's most famous and beloved pieces (it was reportedly a favorite of his, too), yet what appears to be a simple rippling up and down on chords disguises a complex interweaving of melodies.