Joshua Bell Quotes

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I lived for music since I could think.

I jumped into a world of musical learning that was very much led by myself and then I drew from the music that was all around me.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.