Johann Sebastian Bach

"The human spirit yearns for harmony; music merely gives it voice."

"What seems like limitation in the moment often reveals itself as blessing in retrospect."

"I have dedicated my life to one purpose: to glorify what is greater than myself."

"The true measure of mastery is the ability to make the difficult appear effortless."

"In the intersection of mathematics and emotion, music is born."

"I trust that those who come after me will understand what my own age could not."

"The world needs fewer revolutionaries and more faithful craftspeople."

"To abandon tradition entirely is to lose the map that guides us through creation."

"I have found that the deepest truths are best expressed obliquely, through beauty."

"The composer's struggle is the struggle to make the infinite finite."

"I believe that time itself is a composition, and we are but notes within it."

"Gratitude has been my greatest teacher and my truest companion."

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the spirit."

"I have worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results."

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

"Life without music would be an error."

"The ornaments of a house are the friends who frequent it."

"I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music."

"There is nothing to it. You only have to hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."

"Everything that one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that."

"It is true that I am often occupied with temporal things, but I always have God before my eyes."

"Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience."

"The beauty of a composition is in the variety of its parts."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"In music, passion must never be obscured by noise."

"The purpose of all music is to serve God and refresh the soul."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away."

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."