Gordon Getty Quotes

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

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

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

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

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

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.

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

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

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.