Hovhaness Alan Quotes & Sayings

New Rule: The Jacksons must trot out at least one family member who doesn't make us all ask, What went on in that house? — Bill Maher

You owe the world a load of wisdom to dispense. If you lay hands on the grace, make it happen. They world needs you! — Israelmore Ayivor

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. — Baltasar Gracian

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

The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science - they do not change the Bible; they confirm it. — Billy Graham

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

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily. — Colin Ford

One, who has passed through one pain, gets the strength to pass through many pains. Then he becomes the expert in passing through the pains. — Dada Bhagwan

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

From someone whose dad buys him a spade for Christmas, I thought you'd be grateful! — Karl Pilkington

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

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

You're very pleasant to be with," she said. "I like you very much. And it's wonderful that you're not crazy. — Stephen King

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

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing. — Isaac Newton

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old. — Franz Kafka

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

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift. — Tony Curtis

There is nothing like practice. — Alan Hovhaness

Rumors have flourished in worse soil than this. — Colson Whitehead

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

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me. — Sidney Poitier

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

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully. — Sergei Lukyanenko

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

When you hear that something can't be done, ignore that advice and push forward. — Robert Kiyosaki