Steve Hackett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
-- Steve Hackett

#Song #Thinking #Long
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
-- Steve Hackett

#Years #Stuff #Classic
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
-- Steve Hackett

#Thinking #Process #Music Is
It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?
-- Steve Hackett

#Years #People #Effort
Love's stronger than fear and death.
-- Steve Hackett

#Stronger
We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
-- Steve Hackett

#Chinese
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
-- Steve Hackett

#Philosophy #Certainty #Deals
When I'm recording, which is synonymous with writing, I'll play things over and over again until it sounds like I've got the right guitar part. Whereas I think, as the much younger player I tended to do things much more consciously. I didn't wait for the moment where inspiration might strike. That's what I do now. I wait for it to naturally start to replay itself in my mind. As I say, I don't force it. So I like to think of myself as a receiver. I'm a telephone line to who knows where, but until I hear it through that receiver, I don't usually do it. It's got to start writing itself somehow.
-- Steve Hackett

#Inspiration #Writing #Player
I think computers have changed things tremendously. At one time, you tended to take the rough with the smooth. But now, because you can go back and stop and start, and have a limitless amount of tracks if anything looks remotely good, we keep it. You've got to go through the agony of sounding very human at first, and then you work on it with the aid of technology. Computers have revolutionized things in many ways allowing me to work to a standard I could have only joked about fourty years ago.
-- Steve Hackett

#Technology #Thinking #Track
My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.
-- Steve Hackett

#Father #Thinking #Play

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