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 Read Quote
The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there. Nigel Kennedy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. Nigel Kennedy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin. Nigel Kennedy Read Quote
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager. Nigel Kennedy Read Quote
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument? Nigel Kennedy Read Quote
