Glenn Gould Quotes

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Every week someone rings me up wanting to open a new Messner museum, but I'm not interested.

All of our lives are enriched by our culture, from blockbuster films, best-selling video games, independent music, and internationally-renowned museums and art collections, to theatre, opera, ballet, literary festivals and performance poetry.

Museums, I love museums.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

I go and see music all the time.

It may not be art, but it is history.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.

Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.

I love playing arenas; it's the best thing.

Every record is a gate of a certain kind for me.

Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

Doing the O2 Arena in London in 2011 was pretty awesome.

My biggest moments have been in Philly - I met Jay-Z and Beyonce in Philly, I did the Powerhouse in Philly.

People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations.

My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.

Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

The first thing is to accept that theater is an unknown. If you go to a concert, you know the music. If you go to an art show, you can literally see the art on your phone before you see it in person. But with theater, often times people aren't prepared to take risks, even though that's exactly what's great about it.

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.