My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

- Glenn Gould

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,…

- Glenn Gould

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

- Glenn Gould

The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of …

- Glenn Gould

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 th…

- Glenn Gould

There is a craft and a power in listening.

- Glenn Gould

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

- Glenn Gould

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 and se…

- Glenn Gould

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…

- Glenn Gould