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 means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
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
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
If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music. - Nigel Kennedy
If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.
You can't learn pathos or profundity. - Nigel Kennedy
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. - Nigel Kennedy
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him. - Nigel Kennedy
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
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
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…
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager. - Nigel Kennedy
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. - Nigel Kennedy
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic. - Nigel Kennedy
The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.
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