State Of Wonder Quotes by Glenn Gould

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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…
• Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
• The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a…
• My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.
• If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
• I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil.…
• I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.
• The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.
• Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
• One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.
• Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
• 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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