Stephen Hough Quotes

My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I don't know what else I would have done, because I love music too much.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

Music is what I love to do; it's in my veins.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I don't know what I would do if it wasn't music, 'cause I'm really a one trick pony.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

Music has always been a large part of my life, and I'm very fortunate to be able to start a career doing something I love.

My only passion is music.

I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.

Music is all I've ever done.

Music is the first thing I didn't give up.

In the end, music was the only option open to me. It was a blessing I pursued it. I put all my energies into it. I didn't care about no other subjects.

As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do?

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.

I have been drumming my whole life.