The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
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 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 HOVHANESSThis is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of.
ALAN HOVHANESSI’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
ALAN HOVHANESSI did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
ALAN HOVHANESSIt’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
ALAN HOVHANESSMy mother’s background was Scottish.
ALAN HOVHANESSTo attempt what old Chinese painters called ‘spirit resonance’ in melody and sound.
ALAN HOVHANESSTo me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
ALAN HOVHANESSAs well as from the beginning, although I didn’t know anything about it.
ALAN HOVHANESSI think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
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 HOVHANESSWell, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
ALAN HOVHANESSI found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older.
ALAN HOVHANESS