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
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.
symphony eight half
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
two numbers intuition
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.
forever speak childish-things
Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
museums records curator
A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.
musical too-late late
Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
sky clarity mood
My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.
musician reason
[Bach is the] reason I became a musician
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.