There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and. . . all forms of rationalism. . . was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method. . . was considerable and perhaps crucial.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it.
I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. . . . True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.
There's a quote I love, the full version is a bastardisation of quotes from William Hutchison Murray and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but it's about the importance of starting things - not completing or succeeding - but beginning. It ends: "Anything you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now!".
B. B. King is no match for Johann Sebastian Bach.
