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Nigel Kennedy
English
Musician
Born:
Dec 28
,
1956
Bach
Could
Job
Music
Own
You
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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.
Nigel Kennedy
You
Job
Own
Risk
Point
Pushing
Crumble
Within
Limits
Doing
Any
Just
Capability
Might
Then
Really
Your
Moment
Technique
Playing
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
Nigel Kennedy
You
Waving
Would
Could
Instrument
Stick
Want
Stand
Why
Playing
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
Music
Try
Job
Bach
See
Rather
Emotional
Mainstream
Without
His
Than
Keep
Present
Core
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
Nigel Kennedy
You
Learn
Pathos
Profundity
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Nigel Kennedy
Love
Cats
Jazz
Bach
Top
Him
Which
Why
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
Great
You
Musicians
People
Difficult
Think
Bach
Composer
Seeds
He
Putting
Like
Know
Attractive
Equally
Because
Labels
Romantic
Laid
Romantics
Chopin
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
Nigel Kennedy
Time
You
Slightly
Vantage
Vantage Point
Point
Concerto
Got
Beethoven
Different
Even
Each
Each Time
Playing
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
Music
Whatever
Own
Bach
My Own
Feels
Along
Like
Making
Beethoven
End
Up
Egocentric
Going
Maybe
Just
In The End
Whoever
Hendrix
Playing
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
Me
States
Classical
No Interest
Had
Making
America
Just
Happen
Interest
Popular
Seasons
Four
Career
Britain
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