Joshua Bell Quotes

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

I am just the band leader, and I just keep everything in tune.

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

I do basically what a conductor does with a baton, except I also play along with the orchestra. So I have to juggle the roles of playing the concertmaster; sometimes I drop the violin and wave my arms.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I'm an interpreter of music.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I started directing chamber orchestras, then adding bigger pieces, adding winds, adding small symphonies. I've always loved chamber music, and I've done a lot.

It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I think it's a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.

I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.