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I used to love Bach.
I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.
The first music I got really into was Bach.
I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.
For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
People-watching in New York while listening to Bach is kind of amazing.
Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.
I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.
I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.
I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.
Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar.
Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.
I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.
I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
If you learn classical guitar, you play Bach, and then John Dowland. He's the greatest. He's interesting for many, many reasons.
I think that Bach has a very nice sound on the lute. But I find that what I want to do with Bach is best revealed on the guitar.
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
My teacher was still practicing Bach until his death at 89. I have no doubt that if I live that long, I'll be doing the same thing.
A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.
I did a production called 'Classical Savion,' where I did some Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, and all these great pieces.
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything complete - it made it all make sense.
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.