Quotes - Michael Spellman (Provo, UT) Showing 1-30 of 95

#1

“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
― J. S. Bach

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#2

“The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.”
― J.S. Bach

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#3

“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

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#4

“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

tags: christian, inspirational, music, power-of-music

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#5

“What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.”
― J. S. Bach

tags: bach, music, practice, success

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#6

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

tags: music

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#7

“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

tags: instrument, music

42 likes

#8

“Harmony is next to Godliness”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

tags: inspirational

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#9

“All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.”
― J.S. Bach

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#10

“Soli Deo Gloria”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

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#11

“Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.”
― Johannes Sebastian Bach

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#12

“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed . . . equally well.”
― J. S. Bach

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#13

“God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.”
― Johann Bach

tags: destiny, joy, sorrow

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#14

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

727 likes

#15

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: beethoven, music, music-theory

296 likes

#16

“To play without passion is inexcusable!”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

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#17

“Good Morning, on July 7

My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all-
Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
Ever Thine
Ever Mine
Ever Yours”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

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#18

“I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wished to make them better.”
― George Frideric Handel, Messiah: Vocal Score

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#19

“Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.”
― Georg Friedrich Händel

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#20

“I should be sorry if I have only succeeded in entertaining them; I wished to make them better.”
― George Frederick Handel

tags: inspirational

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#21

“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”
― Saint Thomas Aquinas

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#22

“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”
― Thomas Aquinas

tags: prayer, religion

207 likes

#23

“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

tags: catholic, catholic-philosophy, catholicism, medieval, philosophy

169 likes

#24

“Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”
― Thomas Aquinas

140 likes

#25

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
― Thomas Aquinas

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#26

“The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

tags: belief, god, joy, life, spirituality

162 likes

#27

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

tags: agnosticism, aquinas, atheism, faith

551 likes

#28

“Beware the man of a single book.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

tags: books-reading, ignorance, illiteracy, limitation

487 likes

#29

“We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

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#30

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

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