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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.
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.
I need the applause.
Applause waits on success.
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.
There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
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.
The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.