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"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"I let things roll right off me. I don't stay mad long."
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"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel."
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"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
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"I'm going to try to pull a Natalie Portman. Natalie went to Harvard while shooting 'Star Wars'. I don't know how she did it. I want to have lunch with her and ask her - that seems like a bunch of stress right there."
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"When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"
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"We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters."
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"That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did."
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"The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong."
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"Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks."
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"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
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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 seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end."
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"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
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"The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together."
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"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."
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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home."
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"How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to."
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