Gordon Getty Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Gordon Getty quotes and sayings (businessman). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.”
“I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.”
“I don't think events in your life affect your music.”
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