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… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
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.… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine. — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful. — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
