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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
Rules
"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
"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
End
"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
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"I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano."
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Personal Development
"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."
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Personal Development
"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."
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Personal Development
"In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it."
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"I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop."
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Personal Development
"Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet."
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Personal Development
"When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible."
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"I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff."
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Personal Development
"We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour."
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