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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• Nigel Kennedy:

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

• Nigel Kennedy:

  I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than wi

• Nigel Kennedy:

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

• Nigel Kennedy:

  You can't learn pathos or profundity.

• Nigel Kennedy:

  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.

• Nigel Kennedy:

  Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into B

• Nigel Kennedy:

  I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like

• Nigel Kennedy:

  If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble

• Nigel Kennedy:

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