Intelligence Quote by Glenn Gould Download Open image “[Bach is the] reason I became a musician” — Glenn Gould ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intelligence Music Musician Reason
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The music has… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach." I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material,… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Concert pianists are really afraid to try out the Beethoven Fourth Concerto if the Third happens to be their specialty. That's the piece they… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
When I broke 20, I said to myself, 'I will give concerts until I'm approximately 30.' And I made it a year and a… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
If you can do anything for love there's no reason you can't do everything to someone you love. — Jayjay Guillermo Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
An ex is an ex for a reason, they are an EXample of what you don't want in your future. — Alexia Copy Share Image
“When it comes to smarts, adolescents like Jesse have plenty. What they lack, however, are some of the brain-based skills that we all need… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
“A smart person learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise person learns from the mistakes of others.” — Ken Schramm Copy Share Image