I've Always Regarded Nature As

The Composer...joins Heaven And Earth With Threads Of Sounds.

I Did All Kinds Of Things In Order To Earn A Living.

It's Hard For Me To Think Of Others Because I'm Not Particularly In Sympathy With The Music Of This Century.

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 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.