165 Quotes by Joshua Bell

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

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.

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.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

Hamburgers are my favorite thing to eat, period.

I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate hearing someone play something in a way that I wouldn't.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.