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Glenn Gould has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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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