Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.

I grew up in a family that was very musical, learned the blues and everything like that. And I became a little bit frustrated with the simplicity of rock n' roll and blues. I started listening to a lot of classical music - mainly Bach, Vivaldi.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

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.

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.

Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!

I come from a family in which music was important, especially German music - from I come from a family in which music was important, especially German music - from Johann Sebastian Bach to Ludwig van Beethoven. I played a lot of piano, mostly Bach. I really loved Glenn Gould's interpretations. to Beethoven. I played a lot of piano, mostly Bach. I really loved Glenn Gould's interpretations.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?

It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him "my God, you are like a young Michael Bublé. It happened to Harry Connick Jr with the Sinatra thing and now people are saying to me that I am the new Harry Connick Jr. It is a natural thing. I remember hearing interviews with Harry Connick saying "I am not Sinatra, leave me alone, I am different". It's a small thing to deal with.