Joshua Bell Quotes

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Joshua Bell

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 9, 1967

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

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

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

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When I do things, like, with Josh Grobin, or he has so many fans, and I get people after my concerts, classical concerts, all the time coming back and saying, 'Never heard of you until I heard the song with Josh Grobin.' Then they're now classical music fans, which is something I think we need to reach a wider audience.

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We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

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People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

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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.

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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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When Beethoven's Seventh Symphony was premiered, after the second movement, they clapped so much that they had the repeat the second movement and do it again.

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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.

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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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Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

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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.

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My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.

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

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As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.

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

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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.

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

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Hamburgers are my favorite thing to eat, period.

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