Ovation Quotes

(December 1985) So then I`m playing drums and we`re getting gigs in certain downtown clubs like CBGB and the Mud Club, and Max`s Kansas City. And I`m starting to write music for the band, too, like some songs, but they already had two singers in the band, so they would never let me get up and sing a song because what`s the point? One day I finally convinced them: "I`ll just play guitar and sing one song. Please, please, please". And they finally said, "OK". So then I got up to sing one song and the other guy went back to play the drums. And like I got a standing ovation.

I`m also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that`s how I really got into the music business. But I didn`t like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there. (May 1984) So then I`m playing drums and were getting gigs in certain downtown clubs like CBGB and the Mud Club, and Max`s Kansas City. And I`m starting to write music for the band too, like some songs but they already had two singers in the band, so they would never let me get up and sing a song because what`s the point? One day I finally convinced them. I`ll just play guitar and sing one song. Please, please, please. And they finally said OK. So then I got up to sing one song and the other guy went back to play the drums. And like I got a standing ovation." (December 1985)

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

It`s always nice to do something in front of your fans who support you all year long, ... (There are) 47,000 people up there cheering for you and giving you a standing ovation -- it`s great -- but you can`t get caught up in that. You need to make sure you get ready to go, and I`m pretty sure they will be pretty happy if we bring them a World Series championship.

I`m very happy for the fans. I wanted to do it at home. During the ovation, I wanted to run out to right field, forgetting that I was the DH.

If someone threw up at one of my screenings, it would be like a standing ovation.

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it`s like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

We go to do the Billboard Music Awards to be a presenter, and we walk on stage, and we get a standing ovation from the industry.

Another 200 people showed up; 200 people came out of the blue just because they`d heard about it. There was a standing ovation at the end of the movie.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

I was really moved when we received a standing ovation at the football game. It showed me how much people understand and care about what we are doing over there,

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

He`s walked into a couple of rooms where, spontaneously, he`s received a standing ovation.