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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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"From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter."
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"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
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"What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."
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"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys."
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"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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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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"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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"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
Rules
"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
"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
Time
"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"
Love
"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
Right
"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
End
"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
"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."
Music
"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home."
Home
"I usually only play with very close friends."
Friendship
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