"I hate complacency. I play every gig as……" — Nigel Kennedy
"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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11 Quotes by Nigel Kennedy
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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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Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
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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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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 Complacency Quotes
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have…
— Francis of Assisi
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -…
— Aesop
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
— Jimmy Carter
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
— Nick Cave
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The fact that we have not had a terrorist attack in this country in the last six years is not…
— Michael Chertoff
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Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the…
— Edward de Bono
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I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
— Og Mandino
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Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo…
— Wallace Stevens
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Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His…
— Francis of Assisi
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Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
— Don Meyer
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new…
— Charles Lamb
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From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face…
— Mark Helprin
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