古尔德很享受在录音室里一遍遍的尝试自己对音乐的诠释，全身心地投入其中，并且带来完全不同的新视角，甚至可以说是重新谱写了作品。他觉得把演奏变成创作的过程是最关键的。I really thank God that I'm able to sit in a studio with enormous concentration, doing things many times if necessary, and taking - what is more important - a view of the work that I'm recording which lets me in on the composing sequence of the work.
I think it is important, especially in making recordings, that one actually contributes a totally new view, one in fact recreates the work, one turns performance into composition, I think this is the key to it.
早上走进录音室的时候古尔德往往没有想好用什么方式演奏，脑海里可能有16种不同的想法，但是到了下午就会优先选择其中一种作为演奏方式。录音棚所带来的无限可能性非常珍贵，现场演出不可能这么自由，上台前没有确定的想法就完蛋了。There have been many occasions when I've recorded something and have come into the studio at 10 o'clock on a Monday morning and really been in 16 -- not just 2 different minds but 16 different minds as to how it should go.And this sense of options is really quite a marvelous luxury. It's a luxury that you cannot permit yourself in the concert. You would be dead if you walked on stage not being quite certain.
In fact what happens is that by 1 o'clock in the afternoon, having given it 3 hours of work, I may not have come to any definitive conclusions, but I will have finanlly selected one of these options and made it my priority, and out of this create a viable performance.
他认为听众在听录音时也比从前听音乐会拥有了更多选择，可以自己参与融入到其中。 Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is that it frees the listener to participate in ways that all earlier periods were governed by the performer, it gives certain options that you didn't have before.
他讨厌演出现场的观众，并且很早告别了舞台生涯，不再登台演出。I detest audiences. Not in their individual segments but en masse, I detest audiences. I think they are a force of evil."
最喜欢的作曲家毫无疑问是巴赫，巴赫促使古尔德成为了音乐家。My favorite composer: Bach was the reason I became a musician I think, and it has permitted me everything else.
最后放一句古尔德的座右铭：My private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.
附上古尔德自己创作的音乐专辑，有纪录片里提到的四个音符为主题的四重奏Op.1Glenn Gould - The Composer8.8Emile Naoumoff Nicolas Rivenq / 1992