Nigel Kennedy Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
• 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…
• Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
• I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
• Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
• 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.
• Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.
• Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the…
• The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just…

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