Canadian - Musician | September 25, 1932 - October 4, 1982
Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.
Glenn Gould
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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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The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
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Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer.
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Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine.
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I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind.
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There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert listener, and there's a waiting for it to happen: a waiting for the horn to fluff; a waiting for the strings to become ragged; a waiting for the conductor to forget the subdivide, you know? And it's dreadful!
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By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.
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I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.
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Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.
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I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events necessary in order to have the revealed truth about the way one produces a given effect on a given instrument.
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I love the early sonatas; I love the early Mozart, period. I'm really fond of that moment when he was either emulating Haydn or Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach or anybody but himself. The moment he found himself, as conventional wisdom would have it, at the age of 18 or 19 or 20, I stop being so interested in him.
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