Stephen Hough Quotes

The people need to feel the music.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

If I'm not crying while writing a song, I'm not doing it right.

I don't see music as working.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.