"The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that……" — Glenn Gould
"The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane."
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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.
- A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.
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