Quotes by Nigel Kennedy - Page 1

You can't learn pathos or profundity.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Pathos
Profundity
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The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Classic
Groups
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If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Every Night
Ifs
Night
Same Thing
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Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Cat
Cat Love
Jazz
Bach
Cats
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Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Levels
Spiritual
Teenager
Bach
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Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Instrument
Stick
Waving
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I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Complacency
Gigs
Hate
Play
Gig
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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.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Travel
Adventure
Get Better
Improving
Plateau
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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.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Brahms
Different
Vantage Point
Beethoven
Concerto
Each Time
Slightly
Vantage
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I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Jobs
Core
Emotional
Mainstream
Trying
Bach
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I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Different
Indian
Jazz
Scales
Music New Jazz
Different Types
Learnt
Types
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If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Limits
Pushing
Risk
Technique
Crumble
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The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Britain
Seasons
Classical
No Interest
Popular
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Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Direct
Violin
Bach
Foremost
Route
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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'm making it up as I'm going along.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Egocentric
Ends
Feels
Hendrix
Bach
Beethoven
In The End
Whoever
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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 with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Jobs
Capability
Limits
Pushing
Risk
Technique
Crumble
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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 music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Access
Classical Music
Flexible
Mean
Play
Servant
Thinking
Classical
Types
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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 difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Musician
People
Thinking
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I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.
Nigel Kennedy / Violinist
Romantic
Attractive
Composer
Labels
Seeds
Great People Difficult
Bach
Chopin
Equally
Romantics
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