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.
There is nothing like practice. - Alan Hovhaness
There is nothing like practice.
- Alan Hovhaness
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. - Alan Hovhaness
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity. - Alan Hovhaness
The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
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
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…
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 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…
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
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…
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
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…
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 's… - Alan Hovhaness
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 's…
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