#applause

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

#duty #emotional #music #rather #regulated

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. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#allowed #applause #been #between #culprit

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bad #comic #end #every #get

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#applause #being #come #different #different reasons

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

— Warren Cuccurullo

#down #else #everything #forgotten #go

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#applause #because #go #into #people

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

— Baltasar Gracian

#applause #die #envied #envious #oft

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