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I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

I used to love Bach.

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

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.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.