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" Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned. "
Glenn Gould
Much
Playing
Piano
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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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" Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer. "
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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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Try
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" I treat recorded tapes the way a film director treats his rushes. "
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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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Lights
Red
" I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind. "
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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 find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody. "
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Been
Find
" One does not play the piano with one's fingers: one plays the piano with one's mind. "
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Plays
Does
" To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity. "
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Anonymity
Artist
Relationship
" By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans. "
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Time
Along
Animals
" Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine. "
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Sunshine
Passion
Just
" Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud. "
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Behind
Every
Silver
" 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
Creative
You
Yourself
" 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. "
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Age
Moment
Love
" I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil. "
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Force
Evil
Individual
" 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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Reputation
Gossip
Trip
" Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness. "
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Sure
Way
Isolation
" 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
Waiting
Know
Curious
" 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. "
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Serenity
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Purpose
" 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. "
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Music
Teachers
" At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian. "
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