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I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is full of empty theatrical gestures, full of exhibitionism, and it has a worldly, hedonistic quality that simply turns me off.

~Glenn Gould

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Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer.

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It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it.

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I could read music before I could read.

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At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.

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To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: September 25th, 1932

Died: October 4th, 1982

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