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

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.

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.

I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously.

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.