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If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
Glenn Gould
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Glenn Gould
Age: 50 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 25
Died: 1982
Died: October 4
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Musician
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City of Toronto
Glenn Herbert Gould
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I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.
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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.
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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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[Bach is the] reason I became a musician
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The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
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Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
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Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.
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u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
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The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.
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There is a craft and a power in listening.
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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.
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I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.
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I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need x number of hours alone. Now, what x represents I don't really know it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio.
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Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
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The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.
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I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.
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Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
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I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.
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