165 Quotes by Joshua Bell

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.

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

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you’re telling a story.

You don’t have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I’m continuing to do.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can’t imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

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.

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