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

- Nigel Kennedy

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

- Nigel Kennedy

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

- Nigel Kennedy

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

- Nigel Kennedy

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

- Nigel Kennedy

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

- Nigel Kennedy

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

- Nigel Kennedy

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

- Nigel Kennedy

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

- Nigel Kennedy