Johann Sebastian Bach Famous Quotes
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Harmony is next to Godliness
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
The aim and final reason of all music should be none else but the glory of God and refreshing the soul. Where this is not observed there will be no music, but only a devilish hubbub.
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit.
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.
Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting.
The most stupendous miracle in all music.
I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
It is the special province of music to move the heart.
If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.
A Composition on the Piano
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.
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.
The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
