Nigel Kennedy Quotes

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

Nigel Kennedy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 28, 1956

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I think that 99 percent of the time, I'm jocular, lighthearted.

Andrew Breitbart

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'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.

Robert Osborne

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Brett Favre likes to tell stories.

Stephen Rodrick

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The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

Robert Crumb

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Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Rod Blagojevich

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In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

Michael Steinhardt

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An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

Louis de Bernieres

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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Josh Tillman

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I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

Christopher Darden

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It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome

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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Peter Ustinov

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Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.

Scott Adams

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