"I believe that the only excuse we have……" — Glenn Gould
"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 it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference."
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23 Quotes by Glenn Gould
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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…
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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…
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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…
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