Bach quotes

   Whether the angels play only Bach in praising God I am not quite sure; I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

- Karl Barth
  Quoted in the NewYork Times.

You play Bach your way and I'll play him his way.

-Wanda Landowska
Refusing to adapt her technique to suit another Bach specialist. Quoted in Clifton Fadiman The Faber Book of Anecdotes (1985).

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

- (Lula) Carson ne  e Smith McCullers
  Clock Without Hands.

Bach on the wrong notes.

- Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
Of the music of Stravinsky. Quoted inV Seroff Sergei Prokofiev (1968).