My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound. — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me. — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians. — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister… — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. — Alan Hovhaness Copy Share Image
