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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
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"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
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"What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."
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"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys."
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"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful."
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"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."
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"Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward."
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"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me."
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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
Applause
"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."
Music
"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home."
Home
"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."
Family
"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
Experience
"How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to."
Play
"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
Music
"The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together."
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"Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end."
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"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
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