Bach Quote by Thomas Bernhard

““To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.””

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“He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.”

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“A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.”

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“I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.”

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“Time destroys everything we do, whatever it is.”

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“It had always been impossible for me to write to him. Each time I would immediately become aware of the awkwardness of suddenly expressing in black and white things that for years had only been private thoughts, speculations. Then too I was checked by a reluctance to bring up possibly long-forgotten matters as essential evidence for my view of us.…

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All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

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“I barricaded myself and stared out the window, without seeing anything but my own unhappiness.”

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... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better…

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Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.

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If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple.

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