I treat recorded tapes the way a film director treats his rushes.

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• Glenn Gould:

  Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as

• Glenn Gould:

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

• Glenn Gould:

  I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of t

• Glenn Gould:

  The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gra

• Glenn Gould:

  Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways t

• Glenn Gould:

  It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've

• Glenn Gould:

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

• Glenn Gould:

  Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

• Glenn Gould:

  I could read music before I could read.

• Glenn Gould:

  At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.