When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Applause waits on success.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

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.

I always get more applause than votes.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

Old men need applause too.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

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

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

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

The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.