All Glenn Gould Quotes
- Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though… Amateurishness
- Mozart died too late rather than too soon. Died
- The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder… Adrenaline
- My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky. Clarity
- If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing Artist
- I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to… Audience
- I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them. Approve
- The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder. Art
- Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness. Component
- One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind. Doe
- Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever. Away Childish
- The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane. Contrapuntal
- A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner. Concert
- I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform… Any
- There is a craft and a power in listening. Craft
- I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… All
- The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. Art
- The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to… Begins
- The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes. Imagery
- I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… All
- u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality. Banality
- Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. Becomes
- I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me,… Any