"For Bach, it wasn't finality that mattered in music, it was simply the joyous essence of being."

"The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an …"

"My hero was J. S. Bach. It was from his works that I came to understand mathematics and, through a greater understand…"

"To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation."

"Dem höchsten Gott allein zu Ehren, Dem Nächsten draus sich zu belehren."

"To be able to hear J. S. Bach take a melody and improvise what amounts to a spontaneous composition is the most amazi…"

"Und soll wie aller Musik also auch des Generalbasses Finis und Endursache anders nicht als nur zu Gottes Ehre und Rec…"

"Bach is the immortal God of Harmony."

"Not brook, but ocean should be his name (Bach is the German word for brook.)"

"I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music o…"