Stephen Hough Quotes

Unlike sport, music is not about winning or keeping fit or promoting your town or school; it's about celebrating, to a level approaching ecstasy, the deepest human longings.

Stephen Hough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicSchoolWinningHumanDeepest

My grandparents from the old country, Latvia, were all musical on my father's side.

Joel Grey

FatherCountryOldGrandparentsSide

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

Andrew Bird

HistoryDoingChooseTraveledKnow

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

Melvin Maddocks

ArtWorldChooseBackTurnMeans

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

John Muir

HeartWaterManPeopleTempleMay

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

Ann Brashares

BusyNiceWayVeryHousehold

When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.

John Sebastian

I AmPeopleBeeLookReadySaid

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Tom Rice

PowerCongressPresidentLawsOur

I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

Tom Shadyac

SeeThingsMakingEntertainInform

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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If you don't have the time or money to get to the gym, work out at home. It saves tons of time and makes life more efficient.

Mary Helen Bowers

LifeWorkHomeTimeMoneyYou

Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.

Jason Aldean

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