Emanuel Ax Quotes

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

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  Eye, Ears

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

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  Emotional, Social, Should

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

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  Arcane, Seems

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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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  Successful, Waiting, Variation

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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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  Jobs, Thinking, Done

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• We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

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  Welcome, Should, Applause

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• Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

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  Player, Enough Time, Too Much

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

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  Reactions, Force, Audience

  "Alex Ross: Time to show our appreciation for classical music". Interview With Alex Ross, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2010.

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• I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is actually impossible. So, in effect, what you're doing is you're entering the lottery. You're hoping that you play well (and that) you play your best on the day that you're heard, and you're hoping that the people who are judging will like what you do.

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  Art, Thinking, Play

  "Not My Job: Pianist Emanuel Ax Takes A Quiz On Axe Body Spray". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 30, 2013.

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• 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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  Play, Sound, Steinway

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

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  Response, Audience, Ifs

  "Alex Ross: Time to show our appreciation for classical music". Interview with Alex Ross, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2010.

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• I usually only play with very close friends.

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  Play, Close Friends

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• I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

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  Loser, Los Angeles, Has Beens

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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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  Ends, Concerts, Please

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Silence, Wish, Sometimes

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• Everybody makes his path differently.

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  Path

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

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  Play, Wonderful, Feels

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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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  Trying, Movement, Applause

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

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  Home, New Home, Wonderful

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

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  Mean, Likes, Should

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

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  Halloween, Scary, Different

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