Glenn Gould Quotes
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Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though…
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Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
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The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder…
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My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.
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If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
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I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to…
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I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.
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The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.
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Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
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One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.
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Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
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The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.
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A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.
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I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform…
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There is a craft and a power in listening.
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I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the…
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The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
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The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to…
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The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.
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I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the…
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