The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
ALAN HOVHANESSThere is nothing like practice.
ALAN HOVHANESSTo me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
ALAN HOVHANESSMy mother’s background was Scottish.
ALAN HOVHANESSIt’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
ALAN HOVHANESSI found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older.
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 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 HOVHANESSI did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
ALAN HOVHANESSI think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
ALAN HOVHANESSThis is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of.
ALAN HOVHANESSWell, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
ALAN HOVHANESSBut 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 HOVHANESSThe composer…joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
ALAN HOVHANESSI was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano.
ALAN HOVHANESS