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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

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I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

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

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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.

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

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You can't learn pathos or profundity.

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Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

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If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Musician

Born: December 28th, 1956

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