165 Quotes by Joshua Bell

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

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.

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

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

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.

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.