Nigel Kennedy Quotes

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.

Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.

Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.

I used to love Bach.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.

There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It's wonderful music. It's - on a grand scale, there's a lot to it. There are - I can work on it for a long time and keep discovering more things, you know, that surprise me every time.

My earliest memories are listening to my Grandmother playing the piano at our house as I jumped up and down on the couch. She was a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony in the 30s and 40s, and was a huge influence on me.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.

I much rather coach a string quartet in an interpretation of Haydn or Beethoven than to teach the guitar.

I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.

I've played piano since I was 4 years old, and I've always loved songs by J. S. Bach.