Quotes by Joshua Bell

Joshua Bell

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it’s going to be a whole different experience.

Actors

Different Experiences

Guy

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.

Airplane

Football

Journey

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

Halls

Music Hall

Upset

Being a classical musician, you’re doing many things anyway. One day you’re doing Bach concerto and the next you’re doing some avant-garde thing. It’s just another hat that I’m allowed to wear.

Classical Music

Musician

One Day

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Conducting

Strange

Teach

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you’re blown away by a particular musician. If I’m playing the Brahms concerto, it’s crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

Musician

Oboes

Player

I always find it funny when people say, “I don’t really like classical music” or “it doesn’t do anything for me.” I tell them, “Well, you know, it does. You go to films and you’re responding to it, and you’ve heard it…” It’s controlling you! So don’t think you’re not being affected. It’s a great medium for music.

Doe

People

Thinking

I don’t listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I’ll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I’ll put on some Latin music.

Latin

Morning

Musician

I don’t sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it’s a masterpiece, it’s gorgeous, the varnish is still there from 300 years ago. People who know violins, they look at it and it’s almost like a face.

People

Sleep

Years

I don’t want to portray myself as a daredevil. I’m not at all.

Daredevil

Want

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Actors

Affair

Airplane

Artist

Bad Day

Balance

Beautiful

Chance

Classical Music

Composer

Conducting

Continuing

Daredevil

Different Experiences

Doe

Expectations

Feelings

Festivals

Football

Games

Gestures

Good Day

Grew Up

Guy

Halls

Hands

Hearing

Ifs

Instruments

Interpretation

Journey

Kids

Kind

Latin

Little Things

Littles

Looks

Love Affair

Love Is

Lucky

Mind

Mind Games

Miracle

Morning

Mother

Music Hall

Musical

Musician

Needs

Oboes

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Quotes by Joshua Bell

Joshua Bell

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it’s going to be a whole different experience.

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.

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

Being a classical musician, you’re doing many things anyway. One day you’re doing Bach concerto and the next you’re doing some avant-garde thing. It’s just another hat that I’m allowed to wear.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you’re blown away by a particular musician. If I’m playing the Brahms concerto, it’s crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

I don’t listen to a lot of music when I have my free time. But I’ll go to a jazz club and have a drink and listen to a good jazz musician. Or sometimes in the morning, if I want to put myself in a good mood, I’ll put on some Latin music.

I don’t sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it’s a masterpiece, it’s gorgeous, the varnish is still there from 300 years ago. People who know violins, they look at it and it’s almost like a face.

I don’t want to portray myself as a daredevil. I’m not at all.

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