Joshua Bell Quotes

A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have to feel natural.
Joshua Bell

Within, Natural, Wild

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

Long, Football, Perfect

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

Music, Someone, Off

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.
Joshua Bell

Strange, Teach, Conducting

For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
Joshua Bell

Life, Music, Age

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

Daredevil, Portray

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

Family, Nobody, Musical

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

Hope, Play, Chance

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

Trying, Seeking, Thrill

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

Future, Selfish, Enjoy

I love the outdoor festival feeling.
Joshua Bell

Love, Feeling, Festival

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them.
Joshua Bell

Great, Help, Mean

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

Success, Real, Publicity

I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Friends' from my phone because it was wasting too much of my time.
Joshua Bell

Time, Words, Friends

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

Everything, Problem

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, Parents, Enough

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

Write, Composer

I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.
Joshua Bell

Good, Trying, Living

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.
Joshua Bell

Music, Art, Understand

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

Beginning, Tells, Flop

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

Friends, Musical, Collected

So much of performing is a mind game.
Joshua Bell

Mind, Game, Performing

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

Best, Getting, Performing

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

Knows, Street, Beethoven

The violin sings.
Joshua Bell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: December 9, 1967

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