62 Quotes by Glenn Gould

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

I think there's a fallacy that's been concocted by the music teachers' profession, to wit: that there's a certain sequence of events necessary in order to have the revealed truth about the way one produces a given effect on a given instrument.

I could read music before I could read.

I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil.

By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.

Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.

I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.

Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud.

At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.