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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,

"It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home."

Home, Friends

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

Love, Applause

Exlpore more Friendship quotes

"Men are only as great as they are kind."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Friendship, Men

"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Friendship, Help, Word

"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Friendship, Love, Truth, First

"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Friendship, Sympathy, Soul, Concern, Giving

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Friendship, Government, Friend

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Friendship, Friend

"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Friendship, Men, Friends, World

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Friendship, Friend

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

Stephen King, American Author

Friendship, Truth, Lie, Duty, Enemies

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."

Warren Buffett, American Businessman

Friendship, Friend, Enemy, Folly, Profit