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Letter "B" » Bach
«Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.»
Author: Charles Mingus
(Composer)
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
Bach, creativity, different, easy, making, plan, simple, Weird, weirder, weirdest
«We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.»
«I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.»
«Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
Bach, Brains, effort, explain, human mind, listening, transfixed, transfixing
«You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?»
«I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
| About:
God,
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
anonymity, Bach, composing, in due time, suited, temperament
«It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.»
Author: Karl Barth
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
Bach, en famille, go about, Mozart, praising, The Angels
«Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it»
Author: Pablo Casals
(Cellist, Conductor)
| About:
Genius,
Music
| Keywords:
Bach, note, This Man, transcendent, unimportant
«To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the g»
Author: Pablo Casals
(Cellist, Conductor)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
activities, attributes, Bach, ephemeral, inform, strip, The G
«A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Bach, go to sleep, infinitely, Plato, preparing, sleep in, standards, temperance, thankfulness
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