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. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
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. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument? — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
