165 Quotes by Joshua Bell

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.

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading.

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.

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.

After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors.

Coming to a university town is always nice. It's a nice change from going to the sort of major, capital cities.