Johann Sebastian Bach

Music is nothing else but an ordered chaos.

The music of the spheres is the music of God.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I was born to create.

The organ is the king of instruments.

Music is the best medicine for the soul.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

One must have a good ear, a good memory, and a good imagination.

The more I study music, the more I realize how much more I have to learn.

I wish I had been born a century later.

The music of the future will be a return to the past.

I live in my music.

The soul of music is in the melody.

I compose for God and for myself.

When I am composing, I am in a different world.

Music is the breath of life.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly…

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

Since the best man could not be obtained, mediocre ones would have to be accepted.