#bach

Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on. ↗

— David Eddings

#beef #being #college #degree #diplomas

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian. ↗

— Roger Fry

#bach #christian #me

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#beatles #copied #even #everyone #honest

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home. ↗

— Edvard Grieg

#bach #beethoven #build #churches #dwellings

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#asked #bach #been #cinema #executive

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#asian #asian countries #bachelors #countries #declining

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#bach #because #brahms #chopin #composer

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#fantastic #level #playing #spiritual #teenager

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#because #direct #foremost #having #i

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ↗

— Ernest Newman

#bach #beethoven #day #down #hand