I’ve had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody’s fault but mine. Gordon Getty Read Quote
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. Gordon Getty Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read Quote
