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Glenn Herbert Gould[fn 1][fn 2] (/ɡuːld/; September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach's music.

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There is a craft and a power in listening.

Craft, Crafts, Listening, Power

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Eight, Half, Measures, Symphony, U201Che

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.

Individual, Involved, Keys, Music, Notes, Striking

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.

Believe, Differences, Fashion, Making

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

Experience, Horizontal, Notes, Past, Plane, Planes

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

Concert, Curator, Museum, Museums, Record, Records

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.

Clouds, Day, Depressing, Depression, Given, Inversely

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.

Art, Serenity, Purpose, Gradual, Ejection

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. I really can’t think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that — its humanity.

Bach, Deeply, Meaningful, Moving, Thinking, Use

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

Art, Burning, Combustion, Justification, Men

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

Approve, People, Television, Watch, Watches

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

Mind, Piano, Play

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

Died, Late, Mozart, Musical, Too Late

The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.

Art, Harmonious, Identity, Matter, Melodic

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.

Begins, Doe, Forget, Impressed, Negation, Void

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

Isolation, Indispensable, Humans, Component, Human

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.

Components, Evil, Force, Law, Think, Thinking

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Art, Construction, Purpose, State, Wonder

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

Art, Final, Finals, Music, Piece, Pieces