Nigel Kennedy

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

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.

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.

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.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

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

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

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.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

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