"My mother's background was Scottish. She came from……" — Alan Hovhaness
"My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland."
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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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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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