Sarabande Bach Quotes & Sayings

And so I played, and they held their breath, as they heard the beauty of the music, so like a human voice, yet so beyond it. I drew the bow across the strings. The first notes of the Bach Sarabande sounded in the room and I felt the sound waves travel through me, through the body and guts of my cello, through the endpin and into the wood of the floorboards and through the feet of the audience and up through their skeletons to their hearts and into their brains and the music reached their brains and their hearts at the same time - for sound travels according to the laws of physics, and I saw the light behind their eyes catch fire and heard them intake breath as they felt the rush of the music take over their bodies, aethereal and corporeal combined. — Tracy Farr

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. — Steve Jobs

In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new body — Joseph Pilates

The historical method includes the presupposition that history is a unity in the sense of a closed continuum of effects in which individual events are connected by the succession of cause and effect ... This closedness means that the continuum of historical happenings cannot be rent by the interference of supernatural transcendent powers and that therefore there is no "miracle" in this sense of the word. — Rudolf Karl Bultmann

No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down. — David Copperfield

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions
that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride. — Edward Albee

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film. — Rebecca Hall

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession. — John Donne

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. — Clarence Thomas