Culture Quote by Glenn Gould

“Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.” quote by Glenn Gould — Download Open image

“Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.”

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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 closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and…

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I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.

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Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

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The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

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Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.

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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…

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Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

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“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public…

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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…

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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…

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By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.

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My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.

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