Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.