Joshua Bell Quotes

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

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

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.'

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

I listen mostly to classical music.

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.