39 Quotes by Johann Sebastian Bach

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

A Composition on the Piano

The most stupendous miracle in all music.

On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

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.

Harmony is next to Godliness