Johann Sebastian Bach

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

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation _x000D_ of the human spirit.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

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

God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.