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

There is nothing like practice.

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.

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

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

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.

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.