39 Quotes by Johann Sebastian Bach

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!

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...

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

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.

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.