Joshua Bell Quotes
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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
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 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
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
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
Hamburgers are my favorite thing to eat, period.
— 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
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
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
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 think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.
— Joshua Bell