Nigel Kennedy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

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

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

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

You can't learn pathos or profundity.