Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedyis a British violinist and violist. He made his early career in the classical field, and has more recently performed in jazz, klezmer and other music genres...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionViolinist
Date of Birth28 December 1956
spiritual teenager levels
Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.
jobs emotional trying
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.
night ifs every-night
If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.
hendrix ends feels
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.
different jazz type
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
groups classic
The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.
pathos profundity
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
hate play gigs
I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
adventure get-better want
I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.