Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell
Joshua David Bellis an American violinist and conductor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionViolinist
Date of Birth9 December 1967
CityBloomington, IN
CountryUnited States of America
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My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.
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Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.
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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.
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For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
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I want to do everything. That's my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.
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I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.
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I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get out of your comfort zone. And for me, that's very important.
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Over the years, I've seen how being a soloist and having a family can really work.
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Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.
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I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.
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I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.
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We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.
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The question is figuring out the emotions of the composer, where he's coming from, and then tapping into it the same way an actor would in approaching a role.
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When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.