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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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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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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All the plays I do are comedies. I love listening to people laugh. I couldn't do the dramas like 'All My Sons.'
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I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters, In a few moments I will have the joy of opening the Holy Door of Mercy. We carry out this act, so simple yet so highly symbolic, in the light of the word of God which we have just heard. That word highlights the primacy of grace.
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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.
