I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. Nigel Kennedy More Quotes by Nigel Kennedy More Quotes From Nigel Kennedy I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure. Nigel Kennedy get-better adventure travel You can't learn pathos or profundity. Nigel Kennedy pathos 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 scales jazz different 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 hendrix ends feels If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music. Nigel Kennedy every-night ifs night The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic. Nigel Kennedy classic groups 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 musician people thinking Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. Nigel Kennedy brahms vantage-point different 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 play mean thinking 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 risk technique jobs 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 emotional trying jobs Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager. Nigel Kennedy teenager levels spiritual Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him. Nigel Kennedy cat-love jazz cat Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument? Nigel Kennedy why stand you want 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 like know you violin 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 happen me seasons america
