Mauricio Kagel famous quotes

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach
-- Mauricio Kagel

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No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach
-- Mauricio Kagel

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I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.
-- Mauricio Kagel

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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...

I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.

I don't believe in God.

Sincere composers believe in God.