Nigel Kennedy

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

— Nigel Kennedy

#instrument #playing #stand #stick #want

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

— Nigel Kennedy

#cats #him #jazz #love #top

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 #concerto #different #each #even

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

#core #emotional #his #i #i see

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

— Nigel Kennedy

#always #amazing #better #find #get

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

— Nigel Kennedy

#different types #i #indian #jazz #learnt

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

— Nigel Kennedy

#every #every night #music #night #same

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

#crumble #doing #job #just #limits

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

#bach #beethoven #egocentric #end #feels

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

— Nigel Kennedy

#fantastic #level #playing #spiritual #teenager