Quotes by Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Musician

Reason

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

Curator

Museums

Records

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 it differently, to establish the music’s difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.

Believe

Differences

Fashion

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 me rule of mob law.

Evil

Law

Thinking

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

People

Television

Watches

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 the company of other human beings, you need “x” number of hours alone. Now, what “x” represents I don’t really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio.

Intuition

Numbers

Two

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, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day…. my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

Color

Depressing

Depression

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 music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.

Being Alone

Life

Music

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 music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach. I really can’t think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful than that — its humanity.

Meaningful

Moving

Thinking

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

Artist

Creative

Cutting

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Artist

Being Alone

Believe

Burning

Childish Things

Clarity

Cocky

Color

Crafts

Creative

Curator

Cutting

Depressing

Depression

Differences

Doe

Eight

Evil

Fashion

Finals

Forever

Forget

Half

Humans

Identity

Indispensable

Individual

Intuition

Isolation

Keys

Late

Law

Life

Listening

Matter

Meaningful

Men

Mind

Mood

Moving

Museums

Music

Musical

Musician

Notes

Numbers

Past

People

Piano

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Quotes by Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

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

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 it differently, to establish the music’s difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.

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 me rule of mob law.

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

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 music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.

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

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