Steve Hackett Quotes
My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.
Quotes to Explore
-
I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
-
My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
-
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
-
My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
-
You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
-
I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
-
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
-
I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
-
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
-
He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
-
I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
-
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
-
I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
-
The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
-
My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
-
I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
-
I'm a big fan of my father.
-
I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
-
I am angry with him but I have compassion for him. The reason I can have a relationship with him is that I don’t see him as my father but as an individual. I’m glad I didn’t murder him that day. I couldn’t have lived with myself if I had.
-
The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garrotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garrotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires.
-
The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.
-
I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.
-
I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
-
My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.
