"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."

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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."

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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, End, Silence

"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, Trying

"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, Successful, End, Waiting

"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."

Experience, Job, Thinking

"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."

Thought, Eyes

"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."

Time, Right

"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."

Right, Rules

"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."

Music, Being

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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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