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The violin sings. — Joshua Bell

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative things. — Joshua Bell

It's been very exciting for me to start directing and conducting, exploring the symphonic repertoire, which I've always loved. — Joshua Bell

So much of performing is a mind game. — Joshua Bell

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film. — Joshua Bell

I can't play on a full stomach, so I save my eating for after the concert. — Joshua Bell

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off. — Joshua Bell

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people. — Joshua Bell

I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges. — Joshua Bell

It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical. — Joshua Bell

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all. — Joshua Bell

I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other. — Joshua Bell

You're a constant student, as a musician. — Joshua Bell

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing. — Joshua Bell

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance. — Joshua Bell

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking. — Joshua Bell

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. — Joshua Bell

Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all. — Joshua Bell

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys. — Joshua Bell

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity. — Joshua Bell

The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone. — Joshua Bell

Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors. — Joshua Bell

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself. — Joshua Bell

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being. — Joshua Bell

Over the years, I've seen how being a soloist and having a family can really work. — Joshua Bell

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire. — Joshua Bell

I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading. — Joshua Bell

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends. — Joshua Bell

I love celebrating music in different and unique ways. — Joshua Bell

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life. — Joshua Bell

When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange. — Joshua Bell

For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements. — Joshua Bell

When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually. — Joshua Bell

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music. — Joshua Bell

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer. — Joshua Bell

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure. — Joshua Bell

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills. — Joshua Bell

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton. — Joshua Bell

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice. — Joshua Bell

Hamburgers are my favorite thing to eat, period. — Joshua Bell

I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally. — Joshua Bell

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything. — Joshua Bell

I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine. — Joshua Bell

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience. — Joshua Bell

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener. — Joshua Bell

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times. — Joshua Bell

I'm addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you're used to having that high, you look for it in other things. — Joshua Bell

I want to do everything. That's my problem. — Joshua Bell

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin. — Joshua Bell

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. — Joshua Bell

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry. — Joshua Bell

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is. — Joshua Bell

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted. — Joshua Bell

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17 — Rob Bell

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people. — Joshua Bell

We live in the least ugly time in history. — Joshua Bell

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is. — Joshua Bell

I associate music with fun and joy. — Joshua Bell

The one thing in my contract that they have backstage for me is bananas. And usually my assistant will go and get me chicken broth. — Joshua Bell

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker. — Joshua Bell

I think - I'm always interested in reaching people in different ways, not by - not by just standing on a - randomly on a subway platform. — Joshua Bell

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it. — Joshua Bell

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician. — Joshua Bell

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week. — Joshua Bell

After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music. — Joshua Bell

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time. — Joshua Bell