Johann Sebastian Bach

Quotes by Johann Sebastian Bach

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Composer · German · 1685–1750

German composer (1685–1750)

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“Bach is, for me, the touchstone that keeps my playing honest. Keeping the intonation pure in double stops, bringing out the various voices where the phrasing requires it, crossing the strings so th...”
— Johann Sebastian Bach

“Pongileoni's bowing and the scraping of the anonymous fiddlers had shaken the air in the great hall, had set the glass of the windows looking onto it vibrating: and thus in turn had shaken the air ...”
— Johann Sebastian Bach

“I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course.”
— Johann Sebastian Bach

“All roads lead to Bach.”
— Johann Sebastian Bach

“Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.”
— Johann Sebastian Bach

“JS Bach has been called 'the supreme arbiter and law-giver of music'. He is to music what Leonardo da Vinci is to art and Shakespeare is to literature, one of the supreme creative geniuses of history.”
— Johann Sebastian Bach