Stephen Hough Quotes
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Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.
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I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel that a composer is wounded, like all of us.
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
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Classical music thinks in centuries, not four-year terms.
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Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.
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There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer.
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I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.
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Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.
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I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.
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Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we want to experience a sort of ecstasy, to come out of ourselves.