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Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould
Canadian Musician
Born: Sep 25, 1932
Died: Oct 4, 1982
Does Fingers Me Music Piano Think
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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. Glenn Gould
Art Construction State Release Rather Purpose Adrenaline Lifelong Wonder Gradual Momentary Serenity
Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud. Glenn Gould
Cloud Every Silver Lining Behind
Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness. Glenn Gould
Happiness Isolation Way Sure Sure Way Human Human Happiness
I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you. Glenn Gould
You Creative Yourself People Approval Output Disapproval Around Isolate Happens Fascinated
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! Glenn Gould
You Waiting Become Lust Strings Dreadful Horn Almost Sadistic Know Overcomes Concert Blood Very Conductor Curious Forget Listener Happen Ragged
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. Glenn Gould
Truth Music Events Think Way About Given Wit Instrument Revealed Fallacy Been Effect Order Certain Produces Teachers Sequence Profession Necessary
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. Glenn Gould
Love Wisdom Age Bach Would Fond He Period Him Himself Stop Anybody Being Conventional Conventional Wisdom Either Interested Mozart Really Moment Found Early
I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil. Glenn Gould
Evil Think Components Detest Individual Masse Force Audiences
By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans. Glenn Gould
Time Better Made Animals Important Along Discovery Than Get Six Much Humans By The Time
I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault. Glenn Gould
Me Beatles Out Kind Seems Bear Were Affront Any Essentially Cannot Assault
Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned. Glenn Gould
Must Fingers Piano Idea Much Playing
I could read music before I could read. Glenn Gould
Music Before Could Read
At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian. Glenn Gould
Like Concerts Felt

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