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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."

"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."

"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."

"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."

"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me."

"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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"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."


"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."


"When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada."


"Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here."


"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."
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