By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material,… — Glenn Gould Copy Share
I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault. — Glenn Gould Copy Share
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. — Glenn Gould Copy Share
Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip. — Glenn Gould Copy Share
I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems… — Glenn Gould Copy Share
“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public… — Glenn Gould Copy Share
Concert pianists are really afraid to try out the Beethoven Fourth Concerto if the Third happens to be their specialty. That's the piece they… — Glenn Gould Copy Share
When I broke 20, I said to myself, 'I will give concerts until I'm approximately 30.' And I made it a year and a… — Glenn Gould Copy Share
By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans. — Glenn Gould Copy Share
I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in… — Glenn Gould Copy Share
To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity. — Glenn Gould Copy Share
