Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Quotes to Explore
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Working with special needs children is hard.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
