"Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is……" — Nigel Kennedy
"Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him."
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11 Quotes by Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy has 11 quotes on this site.
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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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If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits…
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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…
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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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I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than…
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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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I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather…
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Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.
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Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because…
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The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in…
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More Bach Quotes
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one of 137 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other…
— Sebastian Bach
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure,…
— Karl Barth
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to…
— Jack Black
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When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can…
— Dave Brubeck
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done,…
— Maya Angelou
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And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all…
— James Hilton
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Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?
— Unknown Author
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Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any…
— Unknown Author
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Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a…
— William Zinsser
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far…
— Ezra Pound
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I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
— Unknown Author
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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven,…
— Ernest Newman
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