I’m not religious, but you can’t really listen to sacred music without feeling that “divine” inspiration

I mean, we musicians treat music like it’s just a standard commodity now, and we play it as if it’s divorced from the thousand year tradition of Christianity.

I can’t imagine having faith in a higher being, but when I listen to Bach, I feel that there must be one, or, at the least, I can see quite clearly what can be achieved if you simply act like there is one.