Johann Sebastian Bach famous quotes

03-28-2025

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Achieve #Results
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Hands #Devotional #Gracious
I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Inspiring #Succeed #Wells
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Idiot #Conformity #Accord
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Music #Soul #Finals
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Morning #Coffee #Pieces
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Music #Soul #Honor
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Inspirational #Play #Christianity
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.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Music #Play #Keys
Harmony is next to Godliness
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Next #Harmony #Godliness
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Practice #Achieve #Natural
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Motivational #Successful #Made
Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Coffee #Goats #Turns
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...
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Money #Fall #Blow
A Composition on the Piano
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Science #Piano #Composition
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Purpose #Spirit #Glory
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.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Reality #Form #Caught
The most stupendous miracle in all music.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Music #Miracle
On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Home #Sea #Land
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Life #Hard Life #Occasions
God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Destiny #Joy #Worthy
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.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Love #Eye #Failing
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Sweet #Coffee #Wine
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Views #Church #Ends
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

#Care #Littles #Strange

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