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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
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Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
- Gordon Getty
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#Understanding
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
- Gordon Getty
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#Personality
I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
- Gordon Getty
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I don't think events in your life affect your music.
- Gordon Getty
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My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.
- Gordon Getty
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#Much
#Than
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
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#Yesterday
The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.
- Gordon Getty
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I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.
- Gordon Getty
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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
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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
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#New
I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.
- Gordon Getty
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#Nobody
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#World
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
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#Head
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#Poetry
Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.
- Gordon Getty
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#I Love
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#Mother
#Much
I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
- Gordon Getty
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#Other
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