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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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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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"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me."
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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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"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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"We should welcome applause whenever it comes."
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"From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter."
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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 sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage."
Church
"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."
Trying
"I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time."
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"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."
Thought
"There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through."
Music
"There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues."
Time
"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."
Singing
"A fox is a wolf who sends flowers."
Flowers
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."
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