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My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#church #constantly #contact #first #had

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#i #makes #me #want

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

— Alan Hovhaness

#clothing #god #i #nature #regarded

Death and Rebirth is one of the most crucial parts of life, without one the other simply cannot exist! ↗

— Isabella Poretsis

#death #existance #life #need #rebirth

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

#although #anything #armenian #beginning #culture

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

— Alan Hovhaness

#i #i think #own #place #symphonies

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

#concert #concert pianist #did #earn #fairly

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

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed

Any competent actor could have done what I did. ↗

— Larry Hovis

#any #competent #could #did #done

I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp. ↗

— Larry Hovis

#concentration #equate #i #pow