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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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"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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"It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end."
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"I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do."
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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

"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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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
Music

"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."
Music

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