Quotes About Bach

In Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

If you learn classical guitar, you play Bach, and then John Dowland. He's the greatest. He's interesting for many, many reasons.

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

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.

One of the arrangements I'm really proud of is '21 Guns' because the chorus has this descending bass line with a suspended type of progression that immediately screamed 'Bach' to me.

Johann Sebastian Bach presumably had other things in mind when, in about 1723, he wrote his "Air on a G string" (actually so named by a later arranger.) Part of a larger piece for string quartet, the "Air" includes a violin solo that fits entirely on the G string, the lowest of the violin's four strings.

And for heaven's sake don't play Bach," ordered Randy. "It's so jumpy for today." Rush

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

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

This word closure...it is a stupid word, ja? Bach did not believe in closure. Handel did not. Beethoven did not. Only Americans believe in closure because Americans are like little children- easily swindled. Bach believed in making music, ja?

My teacher was still practicing Bach until his death at 89. I have no doubt that if I live that long, I'll be doing the same thing.

In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.

Sherlock Holmes, to Mary Russell: It seemed to me that your friend's missing aunt took precedence over my history of contrapuntal significance in Bach's cantatas. Mary Russell: I stared at him. It was one of the sweetest things he'd ever said.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.

I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

Als je Bach speelt, zei meneer De Leon, dan ruim je op van binnen, het wordt schoon in je hoofd. Elke dag moet je Bach spelen, je leven lang.

Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.

I'm crying all the time now. I cried all over the street when I left the Seattle Wobbly Hall. I cried listening to Bach. I cried looking at the happy flowers in my backyard, I cried at the sadness of the middle aged trees. Happiness exists I feel it. I cried for my soul, I cried for the world's soul. The world has a beautiful soul. God appearing to be seen and cried over. Overflowing heart of Paterson.