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
became certainly common emphasized episcopal grew household mixed music priest sort spiritual
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.
capital change coming nice sort town university
Coming to a university town is always nice. It's a nice change from going to the sort of major, capital cities.
compared judged love performing quite seem sort
I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.
deal figure highest jet rest sort
I know how to deal with jet lag, and I know just how much rest I need and when I need to take naps. When you walk on stage, you need your brain working at its highest and most fully-functioning, so it's not always easy, but I sort of figure it out.
composer considered highest homage sort work
In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.
love sort
For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.
challenged time
I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.
stretch
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.
family work
Over the years, I've seen how being a soloist and having a family can really work.
beethoven consummate directly experience musician playing speaks
Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.
people randomly reaching
I think - I'm always interested in reaching people in different ways, not by - not by just standing on a - randomly on a subway platform.
recording
I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.
amazing life played seeing time watching
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.
basis education music
I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.