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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

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"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Thought, Fact, Mind, Misleading

"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Thought, Possibility, Mind

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry Adams, American Historian

Thought, Words

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Thought, Man, Words

"The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Thought, Progress, Diversity, Freedom

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Emotion, Nothing

"Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Logic

"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts

"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Now, Problems

"It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought."

Scipio Africanus, Roman Soldier

Thought, Fool