Glenn Gould Quotes

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

U201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

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

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

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

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

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

There is a craft and a power in listening.

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

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

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.