Top 12 Quotes by Alan Hovhaness

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.

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

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

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

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

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

There is nothing like practice.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.