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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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