A Quote by Joshua Bell
What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have
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