Quotes and Sayings about Applause
"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause."
- George Matthew Adams
(Related: Successful, Applause, Care, Encouragement, Famous, Man, May, Woman)
"All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!"
- Emanuel Ax
(Related: Love, Applause)
"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty."
- Emanuel Ax
(Related: Music, Applause, Duty)
"We should welcome applause whenever it comes."
- Emanuel Ax
(Related: Applause)
"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
(Related: Applause, Trying)
"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."
- Emanuel Ax
(Related: Applause, End, Silence)
"From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Love, Applause, Energy, Giving, Want, World)
"Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily."
- Anita Baker
(Related: Applause, Approval, Pain)
"Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause."
- Rudolf Bing
(Related: Applause, Vulgarity)
"Popular applause veers with the wind."
- John Bright
(Related: Applause, Popular, Wind)
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
- Ruth Brown
(Related: Applause)
"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Applause, End)
"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf."
- Elias Canetti
(Related: Success, Applause)
"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping ."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Happiness, Applause)
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Applause)
"Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward."
- Carol Channing
(Related: Applause, Duty, Laughter, Reward)
"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Applause)
"O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"
- William Cowper
(Related: Heart, Man, Popular, Proof)
"The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten."
- Warren Cuccurullo
(Related: Applause)
"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
- Jim Dale
(Related: Act, Applause, End, Poor, Walking)
"I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get."
- Bo Diddley
(Related: Applause)
"What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."
- Bob Dylan
(Related: Applause, Fans, Sleep)
"From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter."
- Zac Efron
(Related: Applause, Being, Day, Laughter)
"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause."
- George Eliot
(Related: Wisdom, Applause, Folly, Laughter)
"Old men need applause too."
- Don Everly
(Related: Men, Applause, Old)
"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."
- William Feather
(Related: Applause, Man, Old, Speech)
"Applause waits on success."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Success, Applause)
"Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles."
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
(Related: Men, Applause, Fate, Italy, Universe, Will)
"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."
- Judy Garland
(Related: Love, People, Applause, Man, Night, Silence, Words)
"Evil report carries further than any applause."
- Baltasar Gracian
(Related: Applause, Evil)
"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
- Baltasar Gracian
(Related: Applause)
"To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism."
- Franz Grillparzer
(Related: Applause, Criticism, Man, Modesty)
"The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in."
- Phil Harris
(Related: Successful, Applause, Songs)
"Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Love, Fear, Applause, Gain)
"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Applause, Being)
"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
- Raymond Hull
(Related: Applause, Being)
"People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming."
- Gwen Ifill
(Related: Time, People, Applause, Audiences, Freedom, Military, President)
"Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations."
- Alfred Jarry
(Related: Music, Applause, Force)
"We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts."
- Alfred Jarry
(Related: Applause, Silence)
"I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can."
- Brenda Lee
(Related: Love, Applause, Sound)
"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."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
(Related: Applause, Spirit)
"My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it."
- Samuel Lover
(Related: Advice, Applause)
"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."
- Gustav Mahler
(Related: Life, Failure, Applause, Opinion, World)
"There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause."
- Herbert Marshall
(Related: Fear, Applause, Nothing)
"But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Nature, Women, Love, Applause, Encouragement, Grace, Help)
"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys."
- Golda Meir
(Related: Applause, Artist, Storms)
"And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that."
- Little Milton
(Related: People, Applause, Stars)
"As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home."
- Lance Morrow
(Related: Home, Applause, Crowds)
"Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter."
- Ivor Novello
(Related: Actors, Applause)
"The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country."
- James Otis
(Related: Health, Life, Sacrifice, Applause, Country, Gentleman, Principles, Public)
"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!"
- Elaine Paige
(Related: Applause, Community, First, Theatre)
"I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months."
- Matthew Perry
(Related: Car, Applause, Months)
"The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight."
- John Charles Polanyi
(Related: Actors, Applause, Delight)
"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Applause, Laws, Senate)
"The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world."
- Leni Riefenstahl
(Related: Life, Happiness, Applause, World)
"I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause."
- Willie Stargell
(Related: Applause)
"What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to."
- Barbra Streisand
(Related: Money, People, Applause, Dress)
"I always get more applause than votes."
- Norman Thomas
(Related: Applause)
"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
- John Updike
(Related: Act, Applause, Glory, World)
"A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success."
- Alec Waugh
(Related: Success, Applause, Man, May, Praise)
"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."
- Randy West
(Related: Applause, Enjoyment, Feeling, Hearing, Laughter)
"There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!"
- Douglas Wood
(Related: People, Applause, Being, Nothing)
"The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me."
- Martin Yan
(Related: Applause)
"Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful."
- Martin Yan
(Related: Happiness, People, Applause, Nothing, Praise)