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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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"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."
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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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"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better."
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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
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"Music fills the infinite between two souls."
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"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."
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"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
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"Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead."
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"It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living."
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