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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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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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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 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."
Time
"I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them."
Thought
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
Applause
"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."
People
"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."
Music
"There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through."
Music
"But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now."
Now
"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."
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