Bach Quotes
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
Karl Barth -
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Bela Bartok
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In my head I had Bach and Schumann and Mozart and very little tango.
Astor Piazzolla -
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
Antonio Damasio -
I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog.
Alicia Keys -
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Nigel Kennedy -
Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.
Charles Gounod -
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy...
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Bach is Bach just as God is God.
Hector Berlioz -
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.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -
I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.
Eleanor Bron -
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.
George Shearing -
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.
Charles Gounod -
I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon