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… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to… — 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 Image
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 Image
Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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
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