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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?'

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.