I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
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It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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