This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of.
ALAN HOVHANESSThis is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of.
ALAN HOVHANESSShe came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
ALAN HOVHANESSAs well as from the beginning, although I didn’t know anything about it.
ALAN HOVHANESSTo me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
ALAN HOVHANESSMy mother’s background was Scottish.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
ALAN HOVHANESSI 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.
ALAN HOVHANESSI’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
ALAN HOVHANESSI did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
ALAN HOVHANESSWell, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
ALAN HOVHANESSThere is nothing like practice.
ALAN HOVHANESSMy purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing.
ALAN HOVHANESSI think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
ALAN HOVHANESSI found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe composer…joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
ALAN HOVHANESS