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Emanuel Ax

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Donna Grant

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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Donna Grant

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Donna Grant

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Donna Grant

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Donna Grant

"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."

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

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Emanuel Ax
"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."

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Emanuel Ax
"I usually only play with very close friends."

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Emanuel Ax
"We should welcome applause whenever it comes."

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Emanuel Ax
"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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Emanuel Ax
"A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Emanuel Ax
"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"

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