Top 100 Sebastian Bach Quotes
#1. Johann Nikolaus Forkel, author of the monograph of which the following pages afford a translation, was born at Meeder, a small village in Saxe-Coburg, on February 22, 1749, seventeen months before the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose first biographer he became.
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
#2. Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.
Mike Patton
#3. When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.
George Shearing
#4. That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.
Sebastian Bach
#5. I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
Lewis Thomas
#6. Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development ... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
Lewis Thomas
#7. If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach ...
Aaron Copland
#8. B. B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.
Ilana Mercer
#9. There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.
Fergie
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.
Sebastian Bach
#14. Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.
Sebastian Bach
#16. I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
Sebastian Bach
#17. You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.
Sebastian Bach
#18. I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.
Sebastian Bach
#19. What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#20. It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.
Sebastian Bach
#21. 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
#22. Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
Sebastian Bach
#25. I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
Sebastian Bach
#26. On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#27. Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.
Sebastian Bach
#28. You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.
Sebastian Bach
#29. My voice has gotten me everything in my life, not my hair.
Sebastian Bach
#31. You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
Victor Borge
#32. I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.
Sebastian Bach
#33. I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.
Sebastian Bach
#34. I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#35. My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
Sebastian Bach
#36. My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly ...
Johann Sebastian Bach
#38. Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.
Sebastian Bach
#39. I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#40. I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.
Sebastian Bach
#42. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#43. You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.
Sebastian Bach
#44. There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.
Sebastian Bach
#45. I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#47. They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.
Sebastian Bach
#48. I went to audition for an episode of 'Law and Order,' and they didn't understand why I was talking so fast, and I was like, 'No, you don't understand. I was on a show called the 'Gilmore Girls.' We had to say everything like that.'
Sebastian Bach
#50. Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.
Sebastian Bach
#51. I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed ... equally well.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#52. I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.
Sebastian Bach
#54. The worst thing I ever wore, really, was rubber pants, but I don't think that was a cliche. They were just way too hot. Rubber doesn't breathe. I look back on my photos, and I dig them. I think I look really cool.
Sebastian Bach
#56. I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.
Sebastian Bach
#57. Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#58. I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?
Sebastian Bach
#59. I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling.
Sebastian Bach
#60. 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
#62. I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.
Sebastian Bach
#63. A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.
Sebastian Bach
#64. All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#65. To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.
Sebastian Bach
#66. 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
#67. I actually had a bunch of songs that I worked on with Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed, but they were too heavy for me because my voice sounds good when I sing clean. It sounds good dirty too, but when I hear my voice sing really clean, that's a special sound.
Sebastian Bach
#68. I think if you can get to that point, exercising, when you really enjoy it, then you're pretty much set for life.
Sebastian Bach
#69. I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.
Sebastian Bach
#71. Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!
Johann Sebastian Bach
#72. Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.
Sebastian Bach
#73. My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
Sebastian Bach
#75. No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.
Sebastian Bach
#78. You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#79. Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
Sebastian Bach
#80. I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
Sebastian Bach
#81. Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#82. They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.
Sebastian Bach
#83. 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
#84. It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.
Sebastian Bach
#85. If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.
Sebastian Bach
#87. I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.
Sebastian Bach
#88. I never really knew what fine cuisine was when I was a little boy in Canada. For me, Italian food was 'Kraft Dinner' or pizza. When I moved to New York, that's when I discovered all the Italian food.
Sebastian Bach
#89. Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#90. There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way.
Sebastian Bach
#91. Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
Sebastian Bach
#92. I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.
Sebastian Bach
#94. I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#95. America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.
Sebastian Bach
#96. So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.
Sebastian Bach
#97. It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.
Sebastian Bach
#98. It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
Sebastian Bach
#99. I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.
Sebastian Bach
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