Nigel Kennedy Quotes
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Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
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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.
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Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
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You can't learn pathos or profundity.
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If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.
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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.
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I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
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I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.