Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould
Glenn Herbert Gouldwas a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach's music...
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth25 September 1932
CityToronto, Canada
reality tradition responsible
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.
music keys individual
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.
void doe forget
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.
art purpose wonder
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.
listening crafts
There is a craft and a power in listening.
cutting artist creative
If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
piano play mind
One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.
depression depressing color
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.
cocky musical style
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.)
fashion believe differences
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.
isolation indispensable humans
Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
art serenity purpose
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.
thinking play islands
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.
consists eight measures remarkable surrounded symphony
The G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.