Glenn GouldI don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.374Humanity
Glenn GouldOne does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.293Thought
Glenn GouldThe purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder. ✨ Commencement address at York University, Toronto, Canada, 6 Nov. 1982282LifePolitics
Glenn GouldA record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.272Truth
Glenn GouldIf an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing329HumanityThought
Glenn GouldTheirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical mate… ▶274Truth
Glenn GouldThe purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.3110LifePoliticsTime
Glenn GouldThere is a craft and a power in listening.299Politics
Glenn GouldMy moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.257Reflection
Glenn GouldMozart died too late rather than too soon.203Death
Glenn GouldOnce I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.173Reading
Glenn GouldIsolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.151Humanity
Glenn GouldI believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's diff… ▶175Love
Glenn GouldThe nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.209HopeLifeTime
Glenn GouldI 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, in fact. And my moods are more or less inv… ▶2010HopeLifeTime
Glenn GouldI detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.159DeathPoliticsThought
