Johann Sebastian Bach famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
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Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
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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.
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Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
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I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
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What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
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I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
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Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!
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My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly...
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Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.
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I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.
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The most stupendous miracle in all music.
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On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.
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On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
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God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
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Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
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Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!
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I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
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My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
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