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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."
Music
"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
"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
"I usually only play with very close friends."
Friendship
"A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity."
Luck
"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
Right
"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."
Thought
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"I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!"
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"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
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"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."
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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily."
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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 lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."
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"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
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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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"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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