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I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

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Joshua Bell
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: December 9
Music Pedagogue
Musician
Violinist
Bloomington
Indiana
Joshua David Bell
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Seeking
Trying
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Things
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No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
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Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.
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Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.
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I always find it funny when people say, I don't really like classical music or it doesn't do anything for me. I tell them, Well, you know, it does. You go to films and you're responding to it, and you've heard it... It's controlling you! So don't think you're not being affected. It's a great medium for music.
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I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.
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I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.
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We live in the least ugly time in history. If you look at back when Beethoven was writing, half the kids were dying, mothers were dying at childbirth, there were more wars going on then than there are now. People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.
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I want to do everything. That's my problem.
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I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.
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So much of performing is a mind game.
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Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.
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I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.
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The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
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I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.
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There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.
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What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.
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Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.
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At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.
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