To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
ALAN HOVHANESSAlan Hovhaness Quotes
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To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
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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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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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My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing.
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The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
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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’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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The composer…joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
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