"I love it when conversations just flow. It's so weird, every time I listen to classical music, I think I've got a grip of it. Then I listen to Johann Sebastian Bach for 20 seconds, and I realize I know nothing."
"The creative output of that man and the quality is beyond anything else I've heard. It's just completely insane."
"Bach was a deeply religious guy, and that comes through in his music."
"With Bach, each instrument gets its own sense of 3D air and size, like it has its own speaker."
"Bach processing enhances the sense of performers operating within a large space, creating a transformative experience."
"Bach uses musical maps like this in his compositions all the time."
"Bach's music has a sense of mathematical beauty."
"Bach, like a mathematician, liked to enumerate things and systematically work through all possibilities."
"There's a humility in Bach. He's not pretending he's certain about anything 'cause he knows that it's always the question that involves the listener. It's never the answer, right?"
"There is the music of Bach, therefore there must be a God. Period. End of story."
"The greatest collection of fugues is this collection of preludes and fugues by J.S. Bach called 'The Well-Tempered Clavier.'"
"The Exotic Gems Bach from the native land of Africa."
"Bach was buried in 1750 in the cemetery outside of the church."
"If someone says they do not like Bach it reflects more of who they are than who Bach really is."
"Sometimes I write a booklet or I do some professional things on Bach's music and I start to cry in some moments that this music is so touching it's unbelievable what it does in that moment."
"Johan Sebastian Bach has established himself as the cornerstone of Western music."
"I love this piece of music, it's Bach."
"For Bach, music was this intensely spiritual way of glorifying God."
"Bach felt that music was a gift of god and like Luther, he regarded music as next to theology in terms of its importance."
"Bach was interested in making music for the people, not music for the religious leaders."
"Bach's music has withstood the test of time."
"The Chacon from Johann Sebastian Bach's second partita in D minor."
"Music students all over the world are often asked in exams to present a harmonisation of a chorale melody in the style of Bach."
"Bach couldn't stand the original harmony, so he set about re-harmonizing them with some more interesting harmony."
"So many of Bach's pieces are rooted in dance form."
"This is a perfect piece of music given the parameters that Bach has set up."
"It's absolutely remarkable that Bach depicted the golden spiral musically."
"He viewed it as a kind of summation of so much of his music, and he put so much into the Matthew Passion."
"Bach transcends the limitations of instruments."
"The Canon of masterpieces... Bach stands right up there."
"Picking a Bach recording for this set because any small classical collection needs a Bach record, a Bach recording."
"Glenn Gould was a master of interpreting Bach, I think."
"In the hands of the greatest writer of counterpoint ever, Johann Sebastian Bach."
"But actually how do we kind of do that in a more successful way? Let's see what we can learn from Bach."
"Bach's works are the Reformation put to music."
"Bach didn't necessarily dictate what instruments were supposed to be played, it was simply writing music and it's been up to interpretation."
"He's such a controllable composer, and his inventions, you know, on piano, and then how he was 17 when he wrote Toccata and Fugue in D minor."
"The thing about Bach is that he was an absolute expert of what he did."
"It's so good for your brain, I think, listening to Bach because if you listen, you can hear all these different lines."
"This is Bach just teasing us a little bit, isn't it."
"So can you see, Bach has used each of those three options that we talked about."
"It's another insight into the wonders of Bach harmonizations of his chorales."
"Well, I hope you've enjoyed that little study on this Bach Chorale."
"That's how rich Bach's music truly is."
"Enjoy listening, playing, thinking about these wonderful Bach chorale harmonisations."
"The idea of perfection hovers as an aesthetic descriptor over Bach's music for a lot of people."
"Bach's music... feels universal, it feels kind of in a way public."
"He was at that apex, the real perfection of counterpoint."
"Start with Bach, he's the guy who unleashed the Kraken, if you want to call it that, of the piano concerto medium."
"Everything is, as Bach put it, solo deo gloria, for the glory of God."
"Bach is one of the few composers who can claim to have created his own era of music."