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Top Gordon Getty Quotes

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Favorite Gordon Getty Quotes

1. "Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not." ~ Gordon Getty
2. "I don't think events in your life affect your music." ~ Gordon Getty
3. "I just have to take my chances like any other composer." ~ Gordon Getty
4. "I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident." ~ Gordon Getty
5. "I see only adaptations - not revolutions." ~ Gordon Getty
6. "I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi." ~ Gordon Getty
7. "I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine." ~ Gordon Getty
8. "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
9. "My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman." ~ Gordon Getty
10. "My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals." ~ Gordon Getty
11. "Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much." ~ Gordon Getty
12. "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
13. "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
14. "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
15. "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." ~ Gordon Getty
16. "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
17. "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

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When you are born," the golem said softly, "your courage is new and clean. You are brave enough for anything: crawling off of staircases, saying your first words without fearing that someone will think you are foolish, putting strange things in your mouth. But as you get older, your courage attracts gunk, and crusty things, and dirt, and fear, and knowing how bad things can get and what pain feels like. By the time you're half-grown, your courage barely moves at all, it's so grunged up with living. So every once in awhile, you have to scrub it up and get the works going, or else you'll never be brave again."
Author: Catherynne M. Valente

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