Stephen Hough Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 22, 1961

Topics

HomeWavesHandsPenPerfectSound

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

Jimmy Fallon

TimeRideParentsPeopleMeSister

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

John Barrasso

GovernmentWantTaxesMostHigher

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

ChangeMindRoadDownNeedCenter

Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.

Amber Frey

PastSweetSeeingTellGuyGoing

Like basketball, fashion is hard work.

Amar'e Stoudemire

WorkHard WorkBasketballFashion

I'm kind of a boring person. People think I get to travel the world and I rap or whatever, but I'm pretty boring. My life is pretty crazy enough, and when I'm not on the road or doing something, I'm kind of boring.

Trip Lee

LifeTravelPeopleCrazyWorldRoad

I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.

Rod Steiger

DayDancePastMistakeCameraBack

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

Jordin Sparks

LoveAmazingMeHelpRunShe

Success is always less funny than failure.

Jon Ronson

FunnySuccessFailureAlwaysThan

As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.

Johnny Mathis

GoodHappyChildPeopleMeSinging

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

Chinua Achebe

GreatDiversityProblemYouSimplify

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

Brigitte Bardot

HurtNeverWantedAnybodyKnowingly

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