Glenn Gould Quotes

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view.

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost.

I like any music I can feel.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day all the kids sat on the floor and watched 'The Neverending Story.' Having never heard of the movie, I concluded that this was what school must be: sitting cross legged on the floor listening to a never-ending story. Page after page.

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.

The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

There's no such thing as trends. There's no such thing as style, even. It's just whatever you feel.

I just know who I am and what I like.

Something that's a hilarious comedy, for someone else might be a drama.

The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're all wired differently. I think about that a lot. I can't explain it. That's just what runs through my blood. It's just the way I look at the world.

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

I've always said my audience is just me. It's somebody out there who's exactly like me and just isn't writing Daring Fireball.

No two people react to things the same way, and even the same person reacts differently at a different time.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.