Emanuel Ax Quotes

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• Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.
• We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
• All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
• 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…
• Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
• 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…
• Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
• How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.
• Everybody makes his path differently.
• I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
• I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.
• I usually only play with very close friends.
• If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
• The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
• I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is actually impossible. So,…
• Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.
• When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.
• It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.
• We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
• 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…

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