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Stephen Hough
Stephen Hough
British Composer
Born: Nov 22, 1961
Me Music People Think Time You
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Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced. Stephen Hough
Future Better Past Live Embraced Only Nonexistent Past And Future Moment Grasped Present Present Moment
Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument. Stephen Hough
Few Musical Musical Instrument Solitary More Hours Instrument Occupations Pass Than Playing
Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us. Stephen Hough
Life Death Gift Giving Others Back Incurable Everything Giving Back Leading Also Disease Manage Which Us Keep Away
Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers of joy, of ecstasy. Stephen Hough
Musicians People Joy Entertained Inspired Mission Most Ecstasy Concert Because Moved Want
Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning. Stephen Hough
Silence Learning Out Born Concentration
The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence. Stephen Hough
Daily Stars Unnecessary Glitter Decadence Skyscrapers Competing
I'd never thought about living in London until about 1999. Stephen Hough
Thought Living London About Never Until
I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986. Stephen Hough
Musicians Side District Had Since New West West Side York Upper New York Place
My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words. Stephen Hough
Commitment Words Piano Principal Always Loved Playing
Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my life would feel as if it had a big hole if I took those away. Stephen Hough
Life Music Writing Words My Life Big Painting Think Took Those Would More Had Feel Than Just Hobby Hole Much Really Away
I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing. Stephen Hough
Faith Fluid Think Changes Changing Something Never Like Rock Always Very
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. Stephen Hough
Music Health Mental Health Care Degree Doubt Entered No Doubt Physical Classical About Classical Music Mental Seems No-One Almost Performer Commercialism Anymore Certainly
If you arrive at a concert ready to play your piece, that's not nearly good enough. You must have your music ready to the point where you can play it on a short rehearsal, after a long plane flight, on a strange piano, having had an unpleasant lunch, in an unfriendly atmosphere. You have to be so over-prepared that you can cope with anything. Stephen Hough
Music Good You Strange Long Lunch Enough Must Unpleasant Atmosphere Having Point Piano Had Piece Concert Ready Arrive Short Where After Anything Unfriendly Plane Your Flight Rehearsal Play Nearly Cope
It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that. Stephen Hough
Success World Easy End Quite Suddenly Aware
Once or twice, I've taken the Gideon Bible out of the drawer, opened it at random, and found myself stuck in the middle of a genealogical list. And that's when I thought: why not cherry-pick the best bits, passages that people can actually use? Stephen Hough
Best Myself Bible People Random Thought Once Drawer Bits Out Stuck Taken Opened Passages List Middle Use Found Twice Why Why Not Actually
To me, the heart of the ministry lies in being able to help deeply distressed people, not because of your own qualities but because you represent Christ. Stephen Hough
Me You Heart People Christ Own Distressed Ministry Lies Able Qualities Because Represent Being Your Help Deeply
I once nodded off during one of my own concerts. While I was playing. Stephen Hough
Own Once My Own Concerts Off While Playing
All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people of every religious background. Stephen Hough
God Happy People Speak Beauty Every Background All Things Religious Inspired Very Listen Us Things
I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata or that novel, but I never had time.' Stephen Hough
Time Back Say Sonata Write Piano Never Had Look Always Years Yes Want Wanted Novel
It's very hard to come up with ideal situations... With different moods and the difficulties of traveling around, I often play my best under the worst conditions. Stephen Hough
Best Difficulties Worst Moods Ideal Come Around Conditions Up Very Often Situations Different Hard Traveling Play
Debussy is one of the few composers who actually created a new sound on the piano - or perhaps we should say a new smell, so perfumed are the vibrations which emanate from the instrument. Stephen Hough
Smell Few Say Emanate Composers Piano New Perhaps Instrument Sound Debussy Vibrations Which Created Should Who Actually
No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration. Stephen Hough
Home Gesture Keys Waves Paper Pen Strings Composers Totally More Inspiration Perfect Piano Sound Were Debussy Than Hands Front Chopin Two
They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory. Stephen Hough
Music Memory Singing Preserved Changed Keyboard Took Back Air Way Magic Somehow Above Both Inventors Piano Counterpoint Blending Sound Hear Lines Debussy Vibrations Them Ephemeral Far Chopin Deep
My place in London is very small, so a piano would take up a third of the room. I leave home in the morning when I'm there and go to my studio. I close the door, and it's soundproof. There's no phone or TV or computer, and I can work uninterruptedly. That has been a huge advantage over the years. Stephen Hough
Work Home Morning Phone Has-Been TV Would London Small Computer Piano Take Studio Advantage Over Leave Go Been Years Huge Up Very Close Door Place Room Third
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. Stephen Hough
Music Experience People Ourselves Out Compose Come Ecstasy Concert Sort Go Listen Where Want Place Why
Unlike a high-wire walker, I don't think any musician strikes the wires of a piano or draws a bow across a violin's strings primarily for the kick of an adrenalin fix. There is danger on stage, but dropped notes are not broken bones; a memory lapse is not a tumble to the ground. Stephen Hough
Broken Memory Stage Think Unlike Strikes Kick Danger Strings Musician Draws Adrenalin Piano Wires Primarily Dropped Bow Walker Fix Any Tumble Notes Across Ground Lapse Violin Bones
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