Nigel Kennedy

(1956) Violinist

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Nigel Kennedy is a violinist, best known for Get Through DCH Clinical 2E.

Quick Facts About Nigel Kennedy

Born: December 28, 1956
Profession: Violinist
Notable works: Get Through DCH Clinical 2E

About Nigel Kennedy

Nigel Kennedy is an English musician and composer. He plays the violin, viola and piano. His early career was primarily spent performing classical music, and has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and other genres.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Nigel Kennedy

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

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Bach

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

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America

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

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Brahms

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

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Classic

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You can't learn pathos or profundity.

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Education

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

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Bach

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

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Complacency

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

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Different

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

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Could

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

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Attractive

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

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Cat

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

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Death

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

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Any

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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…

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Capability

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

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Adventure

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

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Along

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

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Bach

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

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Access

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