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"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
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"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
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"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
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"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
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"If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it."
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"There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over."
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"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."
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"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
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"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
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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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"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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"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
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"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."
Music
"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home."
Home
"I usually only play with very close friends."
Friendship
"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."
Family
"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
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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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