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"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."
"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
"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."
"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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"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."
"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."
"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."
"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."
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