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Joshua Bell

Joshua Bell

American Musician

Born: Dec 9, 1967

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When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. Joshua Bell

You Telling Piece Story Storyteller Play Violin

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. Joshua Bell

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. Joshua Bell

Good Architecture Vision Ninety Ninety Percent Percent Structure Lead Know Does Itself Conductor Conductors Orchestra Rehearsal

I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine. Joshua Bell

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker. Joshua Bell

Blackjack Poker Like Psychology

As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world. Joshua Bell

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

Music Someone Hall Off Get Goes Upset

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer. Joshua Bell

Composer Write Sort Arrangements

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician. Joshua Bell

Family Musical Musician Nobody Up Grew Professional

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. Joshua Bell

Great Together Will Secret Great Secret Concept Course Without Conductor Orchestra Mean Them Unify Help Play Actually

You're a constant student, as a musician. Joshua Bell

You Musician Constant Student

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance. Joshua Bell

You Beginning Tells No-One Performance Flop

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. Joshua Bell

Strange Conducting Strange Thing Teach Thing

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing. Joshua Bell

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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. Joshua Bell

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I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry. Joshua Bell

Problems Recording Solve Know Industry How Businessman

Being a director or a conductor is a balance of many things. And to do it right is a very difficult tightrope to walk. I've come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor. Joshua Bell

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