Author: Nigel Kennedy

Quotes

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 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

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

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

- Nigel Kennedy

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

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

- Nigel Kennedy

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

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

- Nigel Kennedy

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

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

- Nigel Kennedy

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