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

Gordon Getty

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Gordon Getty
Age: 90
Born: 1933
Born: December 20
Businessman
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Composer
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LA
California
Gordon Peter Getty
Personality
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I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.
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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.
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Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.
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I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.
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I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
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Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
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I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
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I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
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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.
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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.
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The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.
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My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.
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