“Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is...” — Emanuel Ax Quote

“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.”

“We should welcome applause whenever it comes.”

“A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.”

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

“The shields were enormous. In 'Julius Caesar,' I died early in the scene and used to fall asleep under the shield until I was woken up by applause.”

“The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.”