Listen Quote by Stephen Hough

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

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

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

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

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

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

Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.

— Stephen Hough

I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.

— Stephen Hough

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

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

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

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