Stephen Hough Quotes

Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to labor intensely with your own brain and soul for the meaning of the work instead of cutting and pasting a bunch of stuff together from the Internet and - boom! - there you are with a performance ready to go.

Stephen Hough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Modern culture is a tremendous force.

John Gresham Machen

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Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

Andrew Mason

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I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

Matt Stone

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A band in our position, we have a first impression to make. We don't want to come out of the gate and make people sad. I think we consciously made that choice to keep it happy and up.

Matthew Ramsey

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The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.

Jeffrey Osborne

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From start to finish, my experience with 'Moonlight' has been the most unique thing.

Trevante Rhodes

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It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

Rowan Williams

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As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

Brad Meltzer

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I love mythology and folklore, and I respect the time, money, and opportunity that a film gives to an audience. It's a chance to empathize, reflect, and learn, so I really want to understand before I sign onto a project: 'What's the potential of this thing? What are we seeing and learning? What are we empathizing to?'

Brie Larson

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Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Anthony Hopkins

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I intend to be making films until I'm an old lady. So, if God willing I get there, I need to create a paradigm for myself where I can make it regardless of whether or not they still like what I'm making.

Ava DuVernay

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