The most hopeful thing about this process – about the inevitable disregard for the identity factor in the creative situation – is that it will permit a climate in which biological data and chronological assumption can no longer be the cornerstone for judgements about art as it relates to environment. In fact, this whole situation of individuality in the creative situation – the process through which the creative act results from, absorbs, and re-forms individual opinion – will be subjected to a radical reconsideration.
Glenn Gould The Prospects of Recording