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 capabilitycrumblejob share on social
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 crumblejoblimit Change image and share on social
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever. Nigel Kennedy complacencyenjoygig Change image and share on social
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. Nigel Kennedy basegipsyharmonically Change image and share on social
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager. Nigel Kennedy bachfantasticlevel Change image and share on social
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 accessclassicalcomposer share on social
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. Nigel Kennedy attractivebachbrahm share on social