I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

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.

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

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 see only adaptations - not revolutions.

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 all about ideas.

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.

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

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

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

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart

The clearest version of vision, backed by the purest grade of greed is a ripen file of failure.

At the end when you reach the destination, you will realize all that matters was the journey.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.