Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it. — Stephen Hough Catholic Copy Share Image
I once nodded off during one of my own concerts. While I was playing. — Stephen Hough Concerts Copy Share Image
I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986. — Stephen Hough Music Copy Share Image
I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood. — Stephen Hough Career Copy Share Image
My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to. — Stephen Hough Composer Copy Share Image
I like the extras in life. Concentrating on serious things doesn't mean you can't also enjoy the lighter ones. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people… — Stephen Hough Beauty Copy Share Image
Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced. — Stephen Hough Future Copy Share Image
There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence.… — Stephen Hough Art Copy Share Image
No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings… — Stephen Hough Debussy Copy Share Image
The Internet tempts us to think that because an email or a new website can be accessed in seconds that everything works… — Stephen Hough Art Copy Share Image
I haven't studied theology in any systematic way. I don't think I'd find certain subjects - canon law, for instance - terribly… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
If you are not living in the same area when you are looking for property, it is a nightmare because you come… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
If 'ecstasy' means to stand outside ourselves, then what better ambition can there be as we wait in the wings of the… — Stephen Hough Ambition Copy Share Image
Before Liszt, a conductor was someone who just facilitated the performance, who would keep people together or beat the time, indicate the… — Stephen Hough Conductor Copy Share Image
Unlike a high-wire walker, I don't think any musician strikes the wires of a piano or draws a bow across a violin's… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
If you arrive at a concert ready to play your piece, that's not nearly good enough. You must have your music ready… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
One of the things that touches me most when I play for an audience is that although we may be unable to… — Stephen Hough Audience Copy Share Image
They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Once or twice, I've taken the Gideon Bible out of the drawer, opened it at random, and found myself stuck in the… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency. — Stephen Hough Artist Copy Share Image
I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love. — Stephen Hough Artist Copy Share Image
The 'Missa Mirabilis' is a big work which was conceived for a large organ and a lot of singers. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable. — Stephen Hough Food Copy Share Image
Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
