Joshua Bell Quotes

I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

I remember when I first got my cello when I was 8 years old. I remember the room it was in and what the lacquer smelled like. Instruments have just been something very special to me.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

I studied violin since I was a boy, and my dream was to be a violinist and to play.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

My pure love is playing music.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

I was drawn to the guitar, and still am, because it struck me as the most soulful instrument.

The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.

I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

My son plays guitar, and he's been at the Kennedy Center.

I just love music, in general. I love art.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

I write music.

I loved playing the saxophone.

Music is magic.