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Top 20 Gordon Getty Quotes (2025 Update)

Gordon Getty Quote: “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 Quote: “I want to make the world better.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It’s a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “I don’t think events in your life affect your music.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “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 Quote: “The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “I’ve had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody’s fault but mine.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “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 Quote: “I just have to take my chances like any other composer.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “I see only adaptations – not revolutions.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “I’m a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “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 Quote: “I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it’s by accident.”
Gordon Getty Quote: “Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me – music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.”
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