Nigel Kennedy Quotes

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I can't re-define music every week!

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.