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Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.

— Donny Osmond

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I like audiences and performing and, you know... applause!

— Kelsey Grammer

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

— Douglas Wood

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

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

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

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

— Mireille Mathieu

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

— Emanuel Ax

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

— Emanuel Ax

✗Opposing Perspectives

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

— Alfred Jarry

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