Nigel Kennedy Quotes

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates.

I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.

I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some reverence.

The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.

I hope people will find sincerity and authenticity in my music.

My only goal is to be the best actress I can be. You have to give it everything. All I have as an actress is the revelation of my soul.

The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

As an actor, I draw from myself.