Joshua Bell
Musician
1967-12-09
Quotes by Joshua Bell
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Conducting is a strange thing to teach.
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I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get out of your comfort zone. And for me, that's very important.
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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.
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After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.
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Being a director or a conductor is a balance of many things. And to do it right is a very difficult tightrope to walk. I've come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor.
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I've been touring for 25 years. I'm used to it, so I love it. Although I feel the tug of home, as I have three little kids, I don't suffer like some artists who constantly complain about how much they hate traveling.
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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. But there are conductors that actually inhibit the players from playing with each other properly.
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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.
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I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.
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When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
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There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.
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So much of performing is a mind game. You're memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thinking about it in the wrong way, everything can blow up in your face.
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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.
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