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.
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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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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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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
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Bid us sigh on from day to day,And wish and wish the soul away,Till youth and genial years are flown,And all the life of life is gone.
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Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
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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.
