Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes

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

Johann Sebastian Bach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: March 31, 1685 - July 28, 1750

Topics

MusicGodSoulEndGloryAim

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

Viola Davis

SpaceMeEnvironmentKindPoorAway

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

Jill Lepore

WorldRichLaborKindTaxesTrade

I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.

Rupert Friend

MeNothingOnlyLikeInterested

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

Roy Blunt

MoneyBackDebtLong-TermPaid

Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.

Michelle Alexander

ChildrenWaySystemGotOurPrisons

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

Joseph Barbera

LaughHelpCreateKnowHospitalGot

I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.

Jonathan Franzen

ChildNewQuestioningShouldAdopt

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

Denis Villeneuve

PeaceHappyWorldBetterSomeone

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Clint Eastwood

ChildhoodInnocenceAnimalsLikeLot

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

Boz Scaggs

TimeSayingArtistLateAnything

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Brian P. Cleary

FunnyWordsStoryQuestionsEnjoy

I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began to seem appealing to me.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

FreedomMeThinkPossibilitiesJazz

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