I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as … - Alan Hovhaness

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Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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