Nigel Kennedy Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”