#si

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

#bach #evolved #evolving #humble #humble opinion

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

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#despite #every #fault #had #i

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

#civilization #course #curse #dodge #family

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

#business #daydream #distracted #i #i am

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#businessman #father #more #much #than

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#about #human #human personality #i #idealistic

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#been #family #fully #grateful #i

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#bank #million #owe #problem #you

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#business #individual #know #must #possible