There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a …

- Joshua Bell

There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell it and get rid of it. And the next day…

- Joshua Bell

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It'…

- Joshua Bell

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

- Joshua Bell

I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take time, to listen, to work together, to listen t…

- Joshua Bell

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

- Joshua Bell

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.

- Joshua Bell

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

- Joshua Bell

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

- Joshua Bell