Nigel Kennedy Quotes

I’d never accept a knighthood because the Queen knows nothing about music, man. How can she say I’m good or bad?

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.

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

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.

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