Quotes Alan Hovhaness

Also, many very good records of contemporary music have been...

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living....

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armen...

I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realize...

I never use a theme without stating that I borrowed the mate...

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place....

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much abo...

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, ...

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God....

In back of the house where I was born there was an attic and...

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particul...

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old fa...

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 beca...

There are certain composers I have always admired very much,...

There is nothing like practice....

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, o...

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but t...

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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