Gordon Getty Quotes

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

  Gordon Getty

  Understanding, Music Is

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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

  Gordon Getty

  Thinking, Events

  "I want to make the world better" By Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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

  Gordon Getty

  Chance, Reincarnation, Composer

  "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.

  Gordon Getty

  Civilization, Ideas, Dodge

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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

  Giving, Needs, Need You

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• Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

  Gordon Getty

  Mother, Children, Cynthia

  "Getty's double life stuns Californian high society" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 1999.

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

  Gordon Getty

  Personality, Century, Music Is

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

  Gordon Getty

  Father, Accomplished, Businessman

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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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

  Father, Rose, Parent

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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

  Teacher, Piano, Firsts

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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

  Yesterday, Century, Newspapers

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• I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

  Gordon Getty

  Revolution, Adaptation

  "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• I want to make the world better.

  Gordon Getty

  World, Want

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• 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

  Style, Daydreaming, Distracted

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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

  Paris, Piano, Bookstores

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

  Gordon Getty

  Writing, Accidents, Ifs

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

  Gordon Getty

  Grateful, Supportive, Situation

  "Getty's double life stuns Californian high society" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 1999.

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

  Gordon Getty

  Singers, Helping, Taxi

  "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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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

  Humble, Thinking, Innovation

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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

  Jobs, Years, Gains

  "I want to make the world better". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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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

  Years, Silence, World

  "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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