Top 5 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Quotes (2025 Update)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Quote: “A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.”

1. “A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.”

2. “What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.”

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

3. “I have assigned many of my father’s basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.”

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

4. “A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.”

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

5. “According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.”

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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