I don't think events in your life affect your music.

- Gordon Getty

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

- Gordon Getty

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

- Gordon Getty

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

- Gordon Getty

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 an…

- Gordon Getty

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

- Gordon Getty

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, a…

- Gordon Getty

Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its…

- Gordon Getty

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