After flubbing many attempts at accepting a compliment gracefully, I finally settled on
What an audience member experienced and what I experienced are two entirely different issues.
The fact that someone was actually moved to say anything at all means something good!
Since the original post went somewhere else I retitled the current topic so as not to bust on the original poster.
I use to take compliments after performing badly. What does the audience know. Don't they know only I can judge how good I was and wasn't happy with the outcome, with being drown out, with the tune not played right by bandmates. etc, what do they know.
Then I read Kenny Werner's book. Brought home a lot of things that passes through the ego and goes to the brain of performers.