Top 100 Quotes About Bach
#1. Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
Richard Bach
#2. I want to go back to the Flock, of course. I've barely begun with the new group!
Richard Bach
#3. You're a perfect expression of perfect Love, perfect Life, here and now.
Richard Bach
#4. The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.
Richard Bach
#5. He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
Holly Black
#6. Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.
Richard Bach
#7. In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
Richard Bach
#8. You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control.
Richard Bach
#9. Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and
follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand
years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a
reason to live - to learn, to discover, to be free!
Richard Bach
#10. I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors.
Frederick Lenz
#11. Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing.
Alexander McCall Smith
#14. Once we visit death, once we see the beauty waiting for us, our fear's gone. Used to be never a book written, of our experience with dying. Now there are shelves, waiting to be read. The beliefs, the experiences of so many others, now.
Richard Bach
#15. It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
Richard Bach
#16. Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.
Richard Bach
#17. Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.
Richard Bach
#18. Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
Haruki Murakami
#19. The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
Richard Bach
#20. 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
#21. Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.
Albert Schweitzer
#22. GREAT SECRET Whenever I'm learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.
James Marcus Bach
#23. Time means nothing.Time is just the way we measure the gaps between not knowing something and knowing it or not doing something and doing it.
Richard Bach
#24. We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.
Richard Bach
#25. Are you saying I can fly?" "I say you are free.
Richard Bach
#26. So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.
Richard Bach
#27. Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
#28. Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.
Sebastian Bach
#29. You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?
Richard Bach
#30. A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C.S. Lewis
#31. How is it we're the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?
Richard Bach
#32. The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.
Sebastian Bach
#33. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.
Richard Bach
#34. Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.
Richard Bach
#35. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.
Jon Gordon
#36. I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Gregory Maguire
#37. Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.
Sebastian Bach
#39. And Richard Bach said, 'A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.
Mia Storm
#40. Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.
Richard Bach
#41. Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.
Jean Douchet
#42. When a friend introduced me to a Bach chaconne, he started by describing it by saying that it has 256 measures (256=2^8) divided into 4 sections of 64 measures (64=2^6), and I liked it even before I heard a single note.
James Stein
#43. I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
Sebastian Bach
#44. I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert.
Anna Mouglalis
#45. You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.
Sebastian Bach
#46. I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.
Sebastian Bach
#47. I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten
Richard Bach
#48. I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach
#49. Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.
Howard Bach
#50. Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Richard Bach
#51. Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!
Richard Bach
#52. The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
Helen Hayes
#53. 'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
Frank Delaney
#55. Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Richard Bach
#56. As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.
Richard Bach
#57. The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
Richard Bach
#58. I'm convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy.
Douglas Adams
#59. God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
Karl Barth
#60. I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.
Richard Bach
#61. You're master of what you've lived,
artisan at what you're living,
amateur at what's next to live.
Richard Bach
#62. If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.
Charles Gounod
#63. The best we can do is live our highest right, gracefully as we can, and let the Principle of Coincidence take it from there. Seven
Richard Bach
#64. You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
Richard Bach
#65. Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
Richard Bach
#66. Next to 'God', 'love' is the word most mangled in every language.
Richard Bach
#67. What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
Richard Bach
#68. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Richard Bach
#69. The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.
Richard Bach
#70. There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook,
peace of mind and inner happiness
Edward Bach
#71. Otherwise, it would have been much easier to just shoot you and be done with it." I disagreed. The fact that I was still alive after so many combat tours was a testament to exactly how hard it is to "just shoot me and be done with it.
Rachel Bach
#72. With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."
Richard Bach
#73. I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
Gordon Getty
#74. All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.
Edward Bach
#75. 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.
Lewis Thomas
#76. True enjoy stories never ever have endings.
Richard Bach
#77. One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
Richard Bach
#78. What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#79. His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.
Richard Bach
#80. It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.
Sebastian Bach
#82. I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
#83. There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
Maira Kalman
#84. I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'
Sebastian Bach
#85. Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.
Richard Bach
#86. The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin.
David Bach
#87. I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story.
King Bach
#88. Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.
Richard Bach
#89. 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?
Pierre Schaeffer
#90. Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).
Frederic Chopin
#91. Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.
Richard Bach
#92. Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.
Emil Cioran
#93. Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
Sebastian Bach
#94. I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same
time, Biggie is my dog.
Alicia Keys
#95. How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.
Richard Bach
#96. She came out of sleep like a thunderclap - waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn't remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.
Holly Black
#97. If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
Emil Cioran
#98. Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach
#99. When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.
Richard Bach
#100. Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music. Others applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and more highly, till all healthy appetites were sick and until the music was nothing but pepper.
Sergei Prokofiev
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