31 Quotes by Emanuel Ax

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.