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Emanuel Ax

"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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"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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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

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"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

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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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"How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to."
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"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
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"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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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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"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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"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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"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home."
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"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."
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