Hovhaness Quotes

#1. She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true ... she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things.

Willa Cather

#2. 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.

Alan Hovhaness

#3. A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

Ratan Tata

#4. They k set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which

Anonymous

#5. 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.

Alan Hovhaness

#6. Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

Demi Lovato

#7. There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

Paul Theroux

#8. Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God's original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration, his intimate design and love-dream.

Francois Du Toit

#9. There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

Alan Hovhaness

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

Alan Hovhaness

#11. I find traveling anywhere very stressful. If I ever have to go on tour, I tend to find it all a bit too stressful. I am too much of a control freak with traveling, and nothing is ever on time. The one thing I can't stand is being late.

Mark Billingham

#12. I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

Douglas Coupland

#13. The composer ... joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

Alan Hovhaness

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

Alan Hovhaness

#15. That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Samuel Goldwyn

#16. 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.

Alan Hovhaness

#17. You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.

David Hare

#18. The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

Alan Hovhaness

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

Alan Hovhaness

#20. To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

Alan Hovhaness

#21. My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

Alan Hovhaness

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

Alan Hovhaness

#23. There is nothing like practice.

Alan Hovhaness

#24. There is no end to what we can learn. The book out there
Tells us as much, and was never written with us in mind.

Mark Strand

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

Alan Hovhaness

#26. What's weird," I said, "is that I've never seen you cry." He said, "I cry all the time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Alan Hovhaness

#28. 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.

Alan Hovhaness