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" I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living. "
Things
Earn
Living
" 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. "
Own
Identity
Culture
" I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place. "
Place
Own
I Think
" It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. "
Others
Think
Sympathy
" I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. "
Nature
Clothing
Always
" 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. "
Old
Born
Childhood
" 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. "
Good
Talent
Teachers
" 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. "
New
Old
She
" No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians. "
Know
Lost
Mind
" There is nothing like practice. "
Nothing
Like
Practice
" 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. "
Two
Fires
Long
" 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. "
Me
Say
People
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