Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes
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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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The most stupendous miracle in all music.
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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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I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
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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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Harmony is next to Godliness
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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 obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.
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Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
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On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.
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It is the special province of music to move the heart.
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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.
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Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
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I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
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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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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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God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
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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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Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!
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You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.
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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.
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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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I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
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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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Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
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I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
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Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!
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A Composition on the Piano
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