I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine. (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. (Gordon Getty)
I don't think events in your life affect your music. (Gordon Getty)
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)
Maturity There are things that come with experience - managing your craft. What I've picked up since my earlier music is not profundity. (Gordon Getty)
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)
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)
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)
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. (Gordon Getty)
The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful. (Gordon Getty)
I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi. (Gordon Getty)
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)
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 personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident. (Gordon Getty)