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Glenn Gould Quotes

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician Picture Quote #1

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don’t much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud Picture Quote #1

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations Picture Quote #1

Mozart died too late rather than too soon Picture Quote #1

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky Picture Quote #1

You don't need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him Picture Quote #1

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness Picture Quote #1

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever Picture Quote #1

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder Picture Quote #1

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner Picture Quote #1

There is a craft and a power in listening Picture Quote #1

If cats could talk, they wouldn't

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I meant to behave but there were too many other options

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it Picture Quote #1

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane Picture Quote #1

The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it Picture Quote #1

One does not play the piano with one’s fingers, one plays the piano with one’s mind Picture Quote #1

I don’t approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them Picture Quote #1

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing Picture Quote #1

Having you in my life made everything better

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What a beautiful world it would be if people had hearts like dogs

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity Picture Quote #1

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don’t much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud Picture Quote #1

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[Bach is the] reason I became a musician (Glenn Gould Quotes) I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don’t much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud. (Glenn Gould Quotes) Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.) (Glenn Gould Quotes) The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations (Glenn Gould Quotes) Mozart died too late rather than too soon (Glenn Gould Quotes) My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky (Glenn Gould Quotes) Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him (Glenn Gould Quotes) Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness (Glenn Gould Quotes) Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever (Glenn Gould Quotes) The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder (Glenn Gould Quotes) A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner (Glenn Gould Quotes) There is a craft and a power in listening (Glenn Gould Quotes) Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it (Glenn Gould Quotes) The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane (Glenn Gould Quotes) The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it (Glenn Gould Quotes) One does not play the piano with one’s fingers, one plays the piano with one’s mind (Glenn Gould Quotes) I don’t approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them (Glenn Gould Quotes) If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing (Glenn Gould Quotes) The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity (Glenn Gould Quotes) I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don’t much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud (Glenn Gould Quotes)