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

- Alan Hovhaness

There is nothing like practice.

- Alan Hovhaness

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

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

- 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 A…

- Alan Hovhaness

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 wan…

- Alan Hovhaness

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

- Alan Hovhaness

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 t…

- Alan Hovhaness

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 anythi…

- Alan Hovhaness