“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.”

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

“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.”

“Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.”

“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.”

“I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.”