"I think that if I were required to……" — Glenn Gould
"I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach. I really can’t think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that — its humanity."
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Glenn Gould
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23 Quotes by Glenn Gould
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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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