Joshua Bell Quotes

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

I love getting to be onstage with so many great musicians.

To perform live would be amazing; that's a huge thing to undertake.

Thirty minutes onstage for me is literally a full day's work. So I make sure I eat right and I make sure I keep my energy high.

Every week we have a concert, what we are performing is my favorite music in the world.

I don't do much relaxing. When I'm not giving a recital I practise.

I never would have thought that I would be dancing at Radio City.

The thing about doing concerts is that it's doing a live show. It's on my schedule. It's songs I want to sing. It's saying what I want to say. It's working with the people I want to work with. I don't have to worry about pleasing other people - I can do what I want, and people come along and go for the ride.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Playing '10,000 Days' in concert was very challenging but infinitely rewarding. It's much more sensitive and emotional than our other songs, and it requires pacing yourself and also being very vulnerable.

When I'm singing, I can see so many people, and I can see their response and everything. And being somewhere like the Hollywood Bowl, I'm seeing those immediate people in front of me, but other than that, it's just dots, and I'm just imagining who's out there and imagining their responses.

The first time I stepped on stage and I started singing, I knew that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

There is nothing I enjoy more than doing my show.

When you do a good theatrical production, sometimes you dream about that 8 o'clock curtain call for six months.

I have a great band of great guys. We're a lot of fun.

We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.

The Smith Center is a theater where you want to keep the lights on. The acoustics are amazing, and this is a stage that was built for sound.

I was a dancer.

Getting out and being able to present a concert is invigorating.

I'm always with my band; they're my best friends.

When you do comedy shows, you usually don't finish until about 11 P.M. Then you have this adrenaline dump, and you get hungry.

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to hold a guitar and get to sing.

We do try to be entertainers, but we're musicians first, and we try to showcase the music.