Chris Bonds wrote:

>One of my college professors told us in a counterpoint class that there
>was no art in the Bach inventions, only craft.  He said that to reinforce
>the idea that if we learned the craft of counterpoint well enough we could
>write inventions equal to Bach's.

He was paraphrasing Bach.

   "I have worked hard, anyone who works as hard could achieve as much."

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