Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Brahms is life-changing every time. And though I love him, I can't say that about Mompou. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words. — 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
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
I just found the piano so fascinating and wonderful, and I begged my parents to buy me one. In the end, they… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I love listening to things like those wonderful piano pieces of Stockhausen. It's just not my thing as a composer or performer,… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Many people who don't like Rachmaninov's style consider the 'Rhapsody' his masterpiece. It's written fantastically well for orchestra and piano. He combines… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from… — 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
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
Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need 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
I was very quick; I did nothing but play the piano apart from being at school. I was at home with my… — 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
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
Whether such socialism is foolish naivety or heroic idealism is a matter of opinion, but what is certain is that, however many… — 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.… — 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
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
