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

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

~ 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 law.

~ Glenn Gould

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

~ Glenn Gould

I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is full of empty theatrical gestures, full of exhibitionism, and it has a worldly, hedonistic quality that simply turns me off.

~ Glenn Gould