Quotes on Applause

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Author: Lynn Abbey

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

Author: Emanuel Ax

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.

Author: Emanuel Ax

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.

Author: Emanuel Ax

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

Author: Anita Baker

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

Author: Rudolf Bing

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Author: John Bright

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Author: Ruth Brown

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Author: Edmund Burke

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Author: Dale Carnegie

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Author: Carol Channing

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

Author: Claudia Christian

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

Author: Warren Cuccurullo

I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.

Author: Bo Diddley

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Author: Bob Dylan

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

Author: Zac Efron

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Author: William Feather

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Author: Baltasar Gracian

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

Author: Baltasar Gracian

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Author: Franz Grillparzer

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

Author: Kin Hubbard

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Author: Raymond Hull

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Author: Alfred Jarry

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Author: Golda Meir

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

Author: Elaine Paige

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Author: Alexander Pope

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

Author: Willie Stargell

I always get more applause than votes.

Author: Norman Thomas

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

Author: Randy West

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

Author: Martin Yan