top of page
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax

"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."

Standard 
 Customized
"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."

Exlpore more Music quotes

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"When words leave off, music begins."

Explore more quotes by Emanuel Ax

Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"I usually only play with very close friends."
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players."
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"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."
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to."
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"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."
Quote_1.png
Emanuel Ax
"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."
bottom of page