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So much of performing is a mind game.

Joshua Bell

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Joshua Bell
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: December 9
Music Pedagogue
Musician
Violinist
Bloomington
Indiana
Joshua David Bell
Performing
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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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The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
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I open up my violin case every day, and have one of the great creations. It is very inspiring. It makes you want to practice. How can you open up a case and look at a violin that was made in 1713 by one of the greatest artists in history and then say, No, I don't feel like practicing today.
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I want to do everything. That's my problem.
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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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We live in the least ugly time in history.
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If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the worst in the best violinist. You almost never hear a satisfying performance, because it doesn't play itself.
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When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.
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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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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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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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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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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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No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
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I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.
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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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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 don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.
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