Gordon Getty Quotes

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

Great music is great music, period.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.