Top 30 Clap Quotes

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

There’s nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It’s amazing! You start work, and people clap. Do you know what I mean? And then they stand up and clap at the end.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers… clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I’d sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, ‘Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.’ It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

When you play a gig in Poland or Australia, or you play a gig in Toledo, they all clap at the same parts of the show. They’re clapping for the solos in the exact same way.

I’d get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn’t clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places – or even the same place – people will turn the other way.

Something that I think extends to a lot of African cultures is that the line between performer and audience is blurry. My mom would lead the wedding song regularly, and she isn’t a professional singer. Even as an audience member, you’re expected to clap and sing the response to the lead.

The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.

It’s about the audience – if they laugh and clap, you feed off that, and if they don’t, you doubt everything you’ve ever done.

It’s a career that’s enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can’t go into acting for that because it’s really your own self-belief that’s going to get you through.

Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.

I think it’s very important to get ego out of the room. I think it’s important to realize it takes two hands to clap – stop the pointing, stop the blame game. I think we’ve seen enough of that, I think the country is tired of it. I think they want to see Washington function, they want to see action.

If you don’t clap for Todrick Hall, guess what Mary, you’re a homophobe.

In Japan, the way they act at shows is very different from home because they don’t yell, they clap for about 10 seconds after the song and then it’s completely silent.

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, ‘Hear me clap, hear the music.’ I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

While on shoots, if I am not shooting for a scene, I would do any work that I can pick, including taking the clap, cue, basically assisting my directors.

Okay, so ‘clap back’ is when you might be in a confrontation with someone and they’re coming at you negatively, but you put them in their place but without being too nasty, so you just clap back a little bit.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

I may be a character artiste but I want the audiences to clap and whistle for me as well.

I don’t necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

That’s the thing about awards – it’s for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.

I’ve never considered myself an actor; I get much more immediate satisfaction singing. If you sing good, people clap. On television, you never know whether you’ve done well or not.

People see my films, and they cheer and they clap, and they are the kind of movies I like to see myself.

We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.

Before I step on a starting block, I will clap three times and shake out my arms twice. I don’t feel ready to race unless I do that.

The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.

I play a little bit of everything. I beat on the walls. I whistle. I scream. I go outside and scream because it sounds cool when it’s recorded. I play drums on a chair. I snap, clap… just anything to build the track and make it feel like I want it to.

I love my ‘Boom Clap.’ Charli XCX is a big one for me.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.