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Emanuel Ax

"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."

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"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."

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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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"How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to."
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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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"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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"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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