Quotes About J S Bach

#1. J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Roger Fry

#2. I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also as good as it gets, period
as good as existence, reality, life and the world.

Andrew W.K.

#3. I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

Brian Wilson

#4. From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Allen Ginsberg

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

Richard Bach

#8. 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

#9. Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

Albert Schweitzer

#10. GREAT SECRET Whenever I'm learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

James Marcus Bach

#11. 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

#12. We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Richard Bach

#13. Are you saying I can fly?" "I say you are free.

Richard Bach

#14. 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

#15. Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?

Richard Bach

#16. 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

#17. You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?

Richard Bach

#18. 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

#19. How is it we're the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Richard Bach

#20. The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

Sebastian Bach

#21. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

Richard Bach

#22. 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

#23. Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

Richard Bach

#24. I want to go back to the Flock, of course. I've barely begun with the new group!

Richard Bach

#25. You're a perfect expression of perfect Love, perfect Life, here and now.

Richard Bach

#26. The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.

Richard Bach

#27. 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

#28. Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

Richard Bach

#29. In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Richard Bach

#30. You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control.

Richard Bach

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Hate is love without enough data.

Richard Bach

#35. Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!

Johann Sebastian Bach

#36. 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

#37. It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

Richard Bach

#38. 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