American - Musician | December 9, 1967 -
At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.
Joshua Bell
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I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them.
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I'm addicted to the adrenaline of performing, and I think when you're used to having that high, you look for it in other things.
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Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
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It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.
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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.
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I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine.
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What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do. You want to push boundaries, to not always be in your comfort zone. If you don't, you get stale. So you have to find areas of growth.
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Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.
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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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When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.
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The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
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