"Why would you want to stand there waving……" — Nigel Kennedy
"Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?"
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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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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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I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than…
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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 Instrument Quotes
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
— Francis of Assisi
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of…
— Lord Acton
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly…
— Ansel Adams
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
— John Adams
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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My body is an instrument for me to use.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
— Berenice Abbott
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as…
— Walter Benjamin
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