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.
We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell. - Steve Hackett
We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
- Steve Hackett
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. - Steve Hackett
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
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 s… - Steve Hackett
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 s…
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 i… - Steve Hackett
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 i…
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions. - Steve Hackett
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
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. Where… - Steve Hackett
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. Where…
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well. - Steve Hackett
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
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 li… - Steve Hackett
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 li…
Love's stronger than fear and death. - Steve Hackett
Love's stronger than fear and death.
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