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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.

~Glenn Gould

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I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil.

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

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Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud.

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Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

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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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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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I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.

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I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: September 25th, 1932

Died: October 4th, 1982

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