"I was born in Somerville, but I don't……" — Alan Hovhaness
"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 years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood."
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14 Quotes by Alan Hovhaness
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I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as…
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I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
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There is nothing like practice.
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My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State…
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I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist…
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To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the…
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The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
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This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my…
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I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was…
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More Arlington Quotes
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I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also…
— Richard Branson
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Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty…
— George W. Bush
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As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is…
— Ann Coulter
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There's not a yes or no answer to that. We want to prepare as a team to be as good…
— Jon Daniels
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In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against…
— Aeschylus
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Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
— Buzz Aldrin
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From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.
— Edward P. Jones
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My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and…
— David Gross
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We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.
— Tom Hicks
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Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended…
— Satish Kumar
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