Nigel Kennedy

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

— Nigel Kennedy

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

— Nigel Kennedy

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

— Nigel Kennedy

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

— Nigel Kennedy

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

— Nigel Kennedy

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

— Nigel Kennedy

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

— Nigel Kennedy

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

— Nigel Kennedy

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

— Nigel Kennedy

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.

— Nigel Kennedy

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without,…

— Nigel Kennedy

If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment,…

— Nigel Kennedy

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States,…

— Nigel Kennedy

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics,…

— Nigel Kennedy

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…

— Nigel Kennedy

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels…

— Nigel Kennedy

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could…

— Nigel Kennedy

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was…

— Nigel Kennedy