Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it. — 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 Copy Share Image
To me, the heart of the ministry lies in being able to help deeply distressed people, not because of your own qualities… — 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
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 there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one… — 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
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
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
