Steve Hackett Quotations

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

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.

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?

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

One minute you're listening to ones idea of what they think you ought to be and then the next thing, you start listening to yourself.

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

Love's stronger than fear and death.

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.