Emanuel Ax Quotes

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

Emanuel Ax

#2. If I had a book or a drink then I didn't think too much of other things - fools create their own paradise.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Julie McGuire gazed intently from her table in the filled-to-capacity dining room of the Wyndham Hotel. The Love To Murder Mystery Conference had saved the best for last. New York Times bestselling author, Tyler Jensen, now approached the podium. His entire bearing commanded attention, from

Morgan Mandel

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

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

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#6. Well, if you asked me what my favorite fruit was before last night, I would've said strawberries. But that's cuz I didn't know oranges could taste so good.

Cassie Mae

#7. 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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#8. I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

Annalee Newitz

#9. Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together.

Richard Branson

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

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#11. 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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#12. Everybody makes his path differently.

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

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#14. I usually only play with very close friends.

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

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#16. All motion consists of two components. One component serves inwardness (internalisation) and the other outwardness (dispersion). Both preconditions for motion regulate the eternal flow of metamorphosis (panta Rhei).

Viktor Schauberger

#17. 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.

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

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#19. It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Brandon Flowers

#20. It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

Ingrid Newkirk

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

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#22. When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep their affairs to themselves. Any man worth his salt regards his private life as his own. To kiss a girl and run and tell would mark him as a cad. Why doesn't that apply to girls also?

Carole Lombard

#23. I've changed from my gorgeous yellow dress into my comfy Victoria's Secret pink. Some secret, it's just sweatpants and a hoodie. The hoodie's up with the strings cinched so tight there's only a small opening to see out of and pour wine into.

Victoria Van Tiem

#24. We can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

Walter Lippmann

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

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

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#27. When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

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

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#29. Jacob Riis in his How the Other Half Lives

David McCullough

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

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

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#32. I take it this is some obscure West Indian usage of the word 'similar' which means 'nothing at all alike'?

Neil Gaiman

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

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#34. 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.

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#35. We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

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#36. A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

Aeschines

#37. He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.

Ring Lardner Jr.