Joshua Bell Quotes

Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.

I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele - it's like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.

So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

The movement of life has its rest in its own music.

As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

Music creates order out of chaos.

The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom.

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

Unbalance so as to re-balance.