I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is actually impossible. So, in effe…

- Emanuel Ax

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

- Emanuel Ax

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

- Emanuel Ax

Everybody makes his path differently.

- Emanuel Ax

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

- Emanuel Ax

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

- Emanuel Ax

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

- Emanuel Ax

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

- Emanuel Ax

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even witho…

- Emanuel Ax