Johann Sebastian Bach

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.