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Alan Hovhaness Quotes
Also, many very good records of contemporary music have been allowed to disappear. They dont recut them even when they are successful. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
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 didnt know anything about it. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
I had been composing but I didnt know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
I was born in Somerville, but I dont 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. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
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 had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
Ive always regarded nature as the clothing of God. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
In back of the house where I was born there was an attic and from there you could see a poorhouse. I remember that very clearly. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
Its hard for me to think of others because Im not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
My mothers 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. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
No, no, I didnt know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
There is nothing like practice. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
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 burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. - Alan Hovhaness Quotes
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 Quotes
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