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“[L'incisione discografica] costringe l'esecutore a cedere una parte del controllo all'ascoltatore, una situazione, tra l'altro, che trovo tanto incoraggiante quanto affascinante, per non dire esteticamente appropriata e moralmente giusta. […] L'arte nella sua forma più elevata è assai poco umana.”

Glenn Gould

Origine: Citato in Kevin Bazzana, Mirabilmente singolare (racconto della vita di Glenn Gould), traduzione dall'inglese di Silvia Nono, edizioni e/o, 2004. ISBN 88-7641-614-5

“Occorre consentirgli [all'artista] di operare in segreto, per così dire, senza che egli debba preoccuparsi, o meglio ancora rendersi conto, delle presunte esigenze del mercato, le quali esigenze, se accolte con sufficiente indifferenza da un numero sufficiente di artisti, finirebbero semplicemente con lo scomparire.”

Glenn Gould

“Non è che io sia asociale, ma credo che se un artista vuole utilizzare il cervello per un lavoro creativo, ciò che si chiama autodisciplina – che non è altro che un modo per sottrarsi alla società – sia assolutamente indispensabile.”

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Glenn Gould: Frasi in inglese

“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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Gramophone
Contesto: 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.

“Never be clever for the sake of being clever
For the sake of showing off.”

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"So You Want To Write A Fugue", work's text

“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. A matter of fact, my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.”

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transcribed from The Life and Times of Glenn Gould

“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.”

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Glenn Gould Reader p5
Contesto: 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. And when that happens, when we forget these things, all sorts of mechanical failures begin to disrupt the functions of the human personality. When people who practice an art like music become captives of those positive assumptions of system, when they forget to credit that happening against negation which system is, and when they become disrespectful of the immensity of negation compared to system — then they put themselves out of reach of that replenishment of invention upon which creative ideas depend, because invention is, in fact, a cautious dipping into the negation that lies outside system from a position firmly ensconced in system.