Stephen Hough Quotes

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!

I'm an amateur.

So often, in my life, when you play a joke on another actor, you say, 'Hello? Steven Spielberg? It's for you.' What's it feel like? It's bizarre. He feels like he's a friend. He feels like he's some kid in the neighborhood who has a camera and makes films, now and then, and says, 'Would you come 'round and play?' It doesn't feel grand at all.

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.

I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.

I am aware that I am not extraordinarily gifted in terms of technique.

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.

I never claimed to be a great photographer.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves.

I don't like to compare things to other things. It always sounds arrogant in print.

Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather who embraces lowliness of heart. Laying down one's rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

I'm too competitive to get that big of a head.