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Zitat des Tages von Glenn Gould:

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

I cannot bear assaults of any kind, and it seems to me that the Beatles essentially were out to affront and to assault.

Glenn Gould

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

Glenn Gould

I love the early sonatas; I love the early Mozart, period. I'm really fond of that moment when he was either emulating Haydn or Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach or anybody but himself. The moment he found himself, as conventional wisdom would have it, at the age of 18 or 19 or 20, I stop being so interested in him.

Glenn Gould

I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.

Glenn Gould

At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.

Glenn Gould

Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud.

Glenn Gould

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

Glenn Gould

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

Glenn Gould

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

Glenn Gould