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Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

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.

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.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

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

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

I am rather inclined to silence.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.