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"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
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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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"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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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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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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"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
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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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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
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"How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to."
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"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
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"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
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"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."
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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
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"All great achievements require time."
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"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
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"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."
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"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."
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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."
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"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports."
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
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