Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes

• The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Soul, Finals

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

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Inspirational, Play, Christianity

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• It is the special province of music to move the heart.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Moving, Heart, Special

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• Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Morning, Coffee, Personality

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• Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Writing, Reflection, Self

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• I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Achieve, Results, Hard

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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.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Keys, Play

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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.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Love, Eye, Failing

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• Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Hands, Devotional, Gracious

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

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Purpose, Spirit, Glory

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• Harmony is next to Godliness

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Next, Harmony, Godliness

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• If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Idiot, Conformity, Accord

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• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Soul, Honor

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

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Sweet, Coffee, Wine

  "Coffee Cantata". Cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach (libretto), 1732.

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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.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Keys, Play, Pedals

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• I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Inspiring, Succeed, Wells

  Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Stokes (2000). “The Complete Church and Secular Cantatas”, p.18, Scarecrow Press

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• Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Coffee, Goats, Turns

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

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Destiny, Joy, Worthy

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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.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Finals, Spirit, Reason

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• The most stupendous miracle in all music.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Miracle

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

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Home, Sea, Land

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

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Practice, Natural Gifts, Achieve

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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.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Views, Church Music, Ends

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

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Motivational, Work, Successful

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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.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  School, Boys, Quality

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