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 HOVHANESSTo me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
More Alan Hovhaness Quotes
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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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My mother’s background was Scottish.
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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 when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
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I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older.
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To attempt what old Chinese painters called ‘spirit resonance’ in melody and sound.
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This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of.
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I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano.
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Well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
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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.
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The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
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There is nothing like practice.
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I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
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I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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As well as from the beginning, although I didn’t know anything about it.
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The composer…joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
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