"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians."

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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."

"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians."