"It's hard for me to think of others……" — Alan Hovhaness
"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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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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I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington…
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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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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was…
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