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Joshua Bell Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 9, 1967

Topics

Me Moving Too Much Play Sometimes

If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.

Crazy Wilderness Fish Year You Know

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

John Edgar Wideman

Me Writing Political Fast Write

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

Daily Me Control Reach Know My Own

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

Short Shy Kid Pretty Chubby

After I came out to my mother at 17, I ran away from home and lived with a friend. We come from a highly religious family, and she could not accept it. It was devastating, and I was depressed.

Family Friend Mother Home Accept

It's so special to meet people after the show, getting that connection during the actual concert. It creates a stronger bond.

People Bond Stronger Connection Meet

I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. I'm responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.

Shoshannah Stern

Vision Beginning Small End Feel See

An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.

Saying Country First Amendment London

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

Robin Wasserman

Myself Past Teen Me Look Place

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

Funny Good Time Song Story Long

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

Life Day Follow Study Over Hours

If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today's competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.

Today Think End Environment You Up

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