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Top 20 Glenn Gould Quotes (2025 Update)

Glenn Gould Quote: “Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.”

1. “Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “There is a craft and a power in listening.”

2. “There is a craft and a power in listening.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “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 serenity.”

3. “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 serenity.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.”

4. “The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “One does not play the piano with one’s fingers, one plays the piano with one’s mind.”

5. “One does not play the piano with one’s fingers, one plays the piano with one’s mind.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “Mozart died too late rather than too soon.”

6. “Mozart died too late rather than too soon.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.”

8. “My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “I’ve always had a sort of intuition that for every hour you spend with other human beings you need x number of hours alone. Now, what that x represents I don’t really know, whether it be two and seven-eights or seven and two-eights, but it’s a substantial ratio.”

9. “I’ve always had a sort of intuition that for every hour you spend with other human beings you need x number of hours alone. Now, what that x represents I don’t really know, whether it be two and seven-eights or seven and two-eights, but it’s a substantial ratio.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing.”

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

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.”

11. “I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.”

13. “The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.”

14. “Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.”

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

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.”

17. “The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “In the best of all possible worlds, art would be unnecessary. Its offer of restorative, placative therapy would go begging a patient. The professional specialization involved in its making would be presumption. The generalities of its applicability would be an affront. The audience would be the artist and their life would be art.”

18. “In the best of all possible worlds, art would be unnecessary. Its offer of restorative, placative therapy would go begging a patient. The professional specialization involved in its making would be presumption. The generalities of its applicability would be an affront. The audience would be the artist and their life would be art.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “I don’t approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.”

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

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “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 an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.”

20. “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 an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Quote: “Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.”

22. “Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.”

— Glenn Gould

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