Gordon Getty Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american businessman Gordon Getty on topics like music, composer, family

  • 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 on business
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  • 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 on added
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  • Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father.

    My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune.

    — Gordon Getty on background
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  • I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

    — Gordon Getty on chances
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  • Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

    — Gordon Getty on beginning
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  • The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

    — Gordon Getty on family
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  • 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 on 19th
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  • I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

    — Gordon Getty on accident
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  • There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was.

    What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

    — Gordon Getty on change
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  • I want to make the world better.

    — Gordon Getty on world
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  • I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

    — Gordon Getty on revolutions
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  • I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore.

    I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

    — Gordon Getty on bookstore
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  • About Gordon Getty

    Name Gordon Getty
    Quotes 21 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Businessman
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics music, composer, family, piano, read
  • Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children.

    Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

    — Gordon Getty on beck
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  • I don't think events in your life affect your music.

    — Gordon Getty on affect
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  • I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

    — Gordon Getty on helps
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  • I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

    — Gordon Getty on advantage
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  • 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 on civilization
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  • My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

    — Gordon Getty on accomplished
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  • 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 on areas
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  • My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

    — Gordon Getty on 19th-century
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  • When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

    — Gordon Getty on composed
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