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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
Rules
"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
Music
"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
End
"We should welcome applause whenever it comes."
Applause
"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."
Applause
"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."
Applause
"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."
Family
"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
Experience
"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."
Thought
"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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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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Personal Development
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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Personal Development
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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Personal Development
"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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Personal Development
"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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Personal Development
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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Personal Development
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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Personal Development
"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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Personal Development
"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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Personal Development
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