Author: Gordon Getty

Quotes

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

- Gordon Getty

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

- Gordon Getty

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

- Gordon Getty

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

- Gordon Getty

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

- Gordon Getty

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas.

- Gordon Getty

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

- Gordon Getty

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

- Gordon Getty

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

- Gordon Getty

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