Author: Stephen Hough

Quotes

I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing.

I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing.

- Stephen Hough

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

- Stephen Hough

Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.

Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.

- Stephen Hough

I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.

I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.

- Stephen Hough

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel that a composer is wounded, like all of us.

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel that a composer is wounded, like all of us.

- Stephen Hough

I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.

I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.

- Stephen Hough

Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

- Stephen Hough

Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my life would feel as if it had a big hole if I took those away.

Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my life would feel as if it had a big hole if I took those away.

- Stephen Hough

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