19th century Quote by Gordon Getty Download Open image “My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.” — Gordon Getty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 19th century Century Human personality Humans Idealistic Ideals Music Music is Personality
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
We're so tribal in Britain about music. But my music - my guitar playing, the rhythms, et cetera - just express my personality, because… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and… — Jeff Healey Copy Share Image
My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people. — DJ Shadow 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
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
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… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you will see that first people rebelled against the order of the things because of lack of liberty, and demanded more freedom. And when they got more freedom, they got frightened, and they desired more security for… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there… — James A. Michener Copy Share
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing.… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
