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"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
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"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."

"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the 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."

"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."

"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
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"I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?"

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"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
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