Canadian - Musician | September 25, 1932 - October 4, 1982
I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.
Glenn Gould
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Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud.
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I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil.
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When I broke 20, I said to myself, 'I will give concerts until I'm approximately 30.' And I made it a year and a half late, but, nevertheless, that's what I did. When I broke 30, I said, 'I think I should be recording until I'm about 50.'
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I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.
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Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.
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Concert pianists are really afraid to try out the Beethoven Fourth Concerto if the Third happens to be their specialty. That's the piece they had such success with on Long Island, by George, and it will surely bring them success in Connecticut. So first there's tremendous conservatism. And then stagnation sets in. Or it certainly did in me.
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I treat recorded tapes the way a film director treats his rushes.
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Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.
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I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is full of empty theatrical gestures, full of exhibitionism, and it has a worldly, hedonistic quality that simply turns me off.
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It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it.
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I could read music before I could read.
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