List of Nigel Kennedy Quotes

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Nigel Kennedy
Total Quotes 14
Menuhin was playing bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.
Spiritual Teenager Levels
I see it as my job to try to keep bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
Jobs Emotional Trying
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? if you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
Jobs Risk Technique
I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. it means i'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
Mean Thinking Play
Even if you're playing brahms or a beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
Different Vantage Point Brahms
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
Different Jazz Scales
I hate complacency. i play every gig as if it could be my last, then i enjoy it more than ever.
Hate Play Gigs
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Cat Jazz Cat Love
I think bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like chopin and the great romantics, brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - i think bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.
Thinking People Musician
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
Pathos Profundity
If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.
Night Every Night Ifs
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when i'm playing beethoven, bach, hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and i'm making it up as i'm going along.
Hendrix Ends Feels
  • Born: December 28, 1956
  • Occupation: Violinist
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