#bach

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#classics #fact #how #influence #interesting

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#best #commonwealth #hedge #married #married men

Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse. ↗

— Edward Lear

#caught #house #living #mouse #muffin

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#bach #began #compose #fifteen #had

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. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#christian #eating #go #higher #his

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. ↗

— John Major

#gorbachev #had #hussein #mind #peace

Bachelorhood: all the fun of married life and more prosperity, leaving lots of descendants to boast of their father’s memory to their fellow inmates. ↗

— Bauvard

#children #funny #funny

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#coltrane #fashion #fashion show #john #really

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry. ↗

— Ennio Morricone

#beethoven #bernard #did #happens #himself

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. ↗

— Sun Ra

#beethoven #had #money #please #power