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

Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Applause waits on success.

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

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

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

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

I need the applause.