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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."
Music
"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
Rules
"How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to."
Play
"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
Music
"A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity."
Luck
"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
Right
"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."
Music
"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"
Love
"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
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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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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"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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"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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"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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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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