"The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is……" — Glenn Gould

"The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes."

— Glenn Gould

23 Quotes by Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness…
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…
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…
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…

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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that… — Michael Parenti
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing.… — Leonard Bishop
The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we… — Oskar Kokoschka
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides… — David Perkins
I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract… — M. Ward
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history,… — John Ruskin
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock… — Unknown Author
I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has.… — Robert Patrick
Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The… — Alicia Keys
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional… — Unknown Author
Words are tools of imagery in motion, — Sam Shepard
Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I… — Lena Olin

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