Hovhaness Quotes & Sayings

The greatest thing we can give to anyone, that's free & never cost anything is HOPE. Give Others HOPE ... Now that's some concept! — Timothy Pina

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know. — Jonah Hill

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

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

Discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it. — Benjamin Franklin

The members of Hyperion's crew were now pigs, for a very simple reason: they all had a stake in Clark's Internet businesses. — Michael Lewis

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

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

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

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy. — Frank Ocean

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

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians. — 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 wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way. — Alan Hovhaness

Remember first that everything you think, say, and do is a reflection of what you've decided about yourself; a statement of Who You Are; an act of creation in your deciding who you want to be. — Neale Donald Walsch

A bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law. — Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

There is nothing like practice. — Alan Hovhaness

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

I'm not fighting for the Marlboro-ization of marijuana. — Ethan Nadelmann

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity. — Alan Hovhaness

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. — 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 anything about it. — 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. — Alan Hovhaness

The composer ... joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds. — Alan Hovhaness

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard

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

I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens. — Jeff Lemire

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — W. H. Auden

I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace. — Jimmy Buffett

Domenico rolled his eyes. "You keep clinging to details whereas the bottom line is, one move of his ass, and you went after him like fucking Hansel to lick the witch's cunt in the gingerbread house." The — K.A. Merikan