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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).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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