Gordon Getty
Gordon Getty
Gordon Peter Gettyis an American businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$2 billion trust. According to the Forbes 400, as of September 2011 his net worth is $2 billion, making him number 212 on the list of the richest Americans...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 December 1933
CountryUnited States of America
My wrap doesn't match my dress, but it's so cold tonight. My biggest fear though is that someone might sneak a whoopee cushion beneath my bustle,
Maturity? There are things that come with experience - managing your craft. What I've picked up since my earlier music is not profundity.
The most important concern is that the children's needs be addressed with a minimum of disruption, and this will be our first priority.
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.
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.
I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.
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.
I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
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.
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
I don't think events in your life affect your music.
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.