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Stephen Hough Quotes

British - Composer | November 22, 1961 -

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

Future Live Moment Past Better Only

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.

Joy People Musicians Mission Want

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.

Life Death Gift Giving Back Others

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 I didn't own a television in New York, never read the newspapers, and am old enough to have lived before the Internet, she is a shadowy figure in my memory.

Time New York Memory Internet Enough

In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.

Moment Enjoy Fasting Anything Order

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

More Playing Pass Musical Instrument

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

Silence Thought Soil Flourish Any

The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence.

Stars Daily Glitter Skyscrapers

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

Music Classical Music Thinks Terms

I was very quick; I did nothing but play the piano apart from being at school. I was at home with my mother, saying, 'Go out and get some fresh air.' No, I wanted to play the piano all the time I could. I was completely obsessed.

Mother Home Time School Saying Play

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

Learning Silence Born Out

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.

Broken Memory Think Violin Fix

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