Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex… — 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
Brahms is life-changing every time. And though I love him, I can't say that about Mompou. — 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 Internet tempts us to think that because an email or a new website can be accessed in seconds that everything works… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
To me, spirituality is the everyday stuff which we're dealing with all the time. It's not going into some ecstatic trance. It's… — 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
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… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Discovering how to spend leisure time well, especially during a time of austerity, could be as important in the effort to reduce… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I was out of the U.K. as a care-free, fun-loving student for much of Mrs. Thatcher's time in Downing Street, and as… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I don't watch television! At least not when I'm traveling. For some reason, I have always found it depressing to watch television… — 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
