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

 

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


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This quote is just one of 9 total Alfred Jarry quotes in our collection. Alfred Jarry is known for saying 'Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.' as well as some of the following quotes.

It is because the public are a mass - inert, obtuse, and passive - that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are - and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

Alfred Jarry

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Alfred Jarry

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Alfred Jarry

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Alfred Jarry

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Alfred Jarry