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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.

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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.
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How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.
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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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If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
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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.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
Zac Efron
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian
Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
Martin Yan
As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Lance Morrow
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
Warren Cuccurullo
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
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
Leni Riefenstahl
I always get more applause than votes.
Norman Thomas
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
John Charles Polanyi
Old men need applause too.
Don Everly
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot
There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
Lynn Abbey
The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
Evil report carries further than any applause.
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The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
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Popular applause veers with the wind.
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The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.
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