I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I was only listening to rock music, burning joss sticks in my bedroom, wanting only to be a disc jockey, and watching… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
In every generation, politicians let us down, but music can lift us above the fighting and the mistakes. It does not offer… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music a lot in that I rarely sit down and put on a CD because I really want… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Unlike sport, music is not about winning or keeping fit or promoting your town or school; it's about celebrating, to a level… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers… — 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
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
Before Liszt, a conductor was someone who just facilitated the performance, who would keep people together or beat the time, indicate the… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures… — Stephen Hough 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
One of the things that touches me most when I play for an audience is that although we may be unable to… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
At moments of acute joy or sorrow, men and women throughout history have sung or reached for musical instruments to express the… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Where prominent writers are expected to have a socially, politically responsible voice, musicians sometimes find meaning only in the voice which produces… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music.… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Before the 20th century, to be a successful musician was merely to be one who was employed. A few, such as Liszt,… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry. — 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 communicate in… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Unlike sport, music is not about winning or keeping fit or promoting your town or school; it's about celebrating, to a level approaching ecstasy,… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal,… — 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 try my… — Stephen Hough 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. There are… — Stephen Hough 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 singing lines… — 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
I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Before the 20th century, to be a successful musician was merely to be one who was employed. A few, such as Liszt, Paderewski and… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
In school, my favourite class was when we were given a subject for an essay on which we could freewheel. And poetry: I've always… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
If I'm walking along the street, ideas come. Ideas about things that I'm interested in. I've jotted them down in the past on bits… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
