Thread by @rebeca6169

"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."

~ Glenn Gould 💎 #BOTD 1932

"One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind."
~ Glenn Gould

"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."
~ Glenn Gould

"... 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." GG

"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."
~ Glenn Gould

"There is a craft and a power in listening."
~ Glenn Gould

"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."
~ Glenn Gould

"Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it."
~ Glenn Gould

"If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing"
~ Glenn Gould

"My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky."
~ Glenn Gould

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

"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."
~ Glenn Gould

"[Bach is the] reason I became a musician"
~ Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould