Everybody makes his path differently.

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.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.

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

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

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

Everybody makes his path differently.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

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

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

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

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

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.

I usually only play with very close friends.

I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship.

Just a ton of excitement, and the way the guys are together on this, they're looking at me to grow and to learn, and I'm looking at them to grow and to learn.

Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.

For entertainment a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.

If one has problems with immigrant communities in Europe, that should not be used against Turkey.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It's more than our physical appearance.

I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.

Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

If you get your face and your name out there enough people will start to recognize you.

Besides, rats survived so well because they were rats. They knew when to keep quiet and they knew when to squeal.

In the heat of her hands I thought This is the campfire that mocks the sun.