If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

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• Emanuel Ax:

  I usually only play with very close friends.

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  I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between

• Emanuel Ax:

  I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.

• Emanuel Ax:

  I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

• Emanuel Ax:

  How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

• Emanuel Ax:

  Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.

• Emanuel Ax:

  Everybody makes his path differently.

• Emanuel Ax:

  Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.

• Emanuel Ax:

  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!