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

Rules,

"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, Being

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

Music, Force

"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."

Applause, End, Silence

"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."

Right, Rules

"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."

Experience, Job, Thinking

"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."

Applause, Trying

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

Play,

"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."

End,

"I usually only play with very close friends."

Friendship, Friends, Play

Exlpore more Applause quotes

"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."

Emanuel Ax, Ukrainian Musician

Applause, End, Silence

"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."

Emanuel Ax, Ukrainian Musician

Applause, Trying

"Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily."

Anita Baker, American Musician

Applause, Approval, Pain

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

Rudolf Bing, Austrian Musician

Applause, Vulgarity

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

Ruth Brown, American Musician

Applause,

"Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward."

Carol Channing, American Actress

Applause, Duty, Laughter, Reward

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

Claudia Christian, American Actress

Applause,

"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."

Warren Cuccurullo, American Musician

Applause,

"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."

Bo Diddley, American Musician

Applause,

"What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Applause, Fans, Sleep