And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Applause waits on success.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I always get more applause than votes.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

Old men need applause too.

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.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

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.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

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

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.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

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

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.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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

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

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .