Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist and conductor. Read full biography of Joshua Bell →
So much of performing is a mind game.
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
We live in the least ugly time in history.
When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.
You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.
A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have to... →
In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to... →