Steve Hackett
Steve Hackett
Stephen Richard "Steve" Hackett is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He gained prominence as lead guitarist of the English progressive rock band Genesis, which he joined in 1970 and left in 1977 to pursue a solo career. Hackett contributed to six Genesis studio albums, three live albums and seven singles. Hackett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 February 1950
These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.
chinese
We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.
stronger
Love's stronger than fear and death.
years people effort
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?
thinking process music-is
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
father thinking play
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.
years stuff classic
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
song thinking long
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.
philosophy certainty deals
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
listening minute next ought start
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.