Alan Hovhaness Quotes

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• I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I…
• I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
• I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
• There is nothing like practice.
• 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…
• 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…
• I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I…
• To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
• The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
• 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…
• I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
• It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
• There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to…
• No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

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