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 HOVHANESSThe composer…joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
More Alan Hovhaness Quotes
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I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
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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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My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing.
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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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Well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
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I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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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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My mother’s background was Scottish.
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There is nothing like practice.
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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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As well as from the beginning, although I didn’t know anything about it.
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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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To attempt what old Chinese painters called ‘spirit resonance’ in melody and sound.
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To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
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