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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
Rules
"We should welcome applause whenever it comes."
Applause
"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."
Applause
"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
"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
"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."
Thought
"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
Time
"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
Right
"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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"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
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Personal Development
"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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Personal Development
"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
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Personal Development
"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."
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Personal Development
"Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments."
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Personal Development
"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules."
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Personal Development
"I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do."
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Personal Development
"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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Personal Development
"If you know the rules, it's not anymore interesting the game, but if you don't know them it's interesting... like what's the feeling to be 24 hours at jail, who can you meet at jail. Do you know somebody from the guards...?!"
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Personal Development
"Restrict bankruptcy rules."
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Personal Development
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