“Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.” PleasureMusicTechnologyTalentSexualityVocalPublicitySubordinates Author:Christopher John Farley
“Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.” KindDifferentPleasureMusicTeaDifferent KindsLowbrow Author:Rose Macaulay
“The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.” GivingFeelsMomentsMemoriesPleasureMusicRegret Author:Madame de Stael
“In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more than painting might do. They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. But music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor.” WellsMaySaidHelpingMightSpiritPleasureMusicLordPaintingConversationElementsCriticismRaisesWineAddDenyDevotionMeatAppetiteFlavorSauceRelishProprietyBanquetsArdor Author:Laurence Sterne
“I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.” WritingHumansWishPleasureWonderMusicMusicianSelfishBeastHeavenlyWagner Book:Letters Source: Letters
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.” MindHumansSciencePleasureMusicMusic IsMathematicsMathMathematicalHuman MindCountingMath And ScienceMathematics And ScienceNumbers And MathMath LoveMath And LoveMath And Music Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” HumansKindArtWisdomSoundPleasureHealingMusicHuman NatureProduceHealthSelf ImprovementMusicalComposerDopePlaying MusicInspirational MusicPower Of MusicUniversal LanguageFunny MusicWithout MusicMusic LifeSound Of MusicMusic And LifeFamous MusicianMusic EducationSound And MusicMusical LifeOld MusicWords And MusicInstrumental MusicFun MusicMusical CompositionMusic TherapyLife Without MusicProducing Music Author:Confucius
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.” WritingPleasureMusicCreativityGreat WritersWriters And WritingWritten WordWriting By WritersGreat WritingGreatest PleasuresCreativity And Writing Book:Truman Capote: Conversations Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.” KnowsMenSpiritHateEvilNextPleasureMusicKnow HowInventionTheologySatanDespiseGift From GodFunny MusicEvil Spirits Author:Martin Luther
“I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.” PleasureMusicPlanetsCatJazz Author:George Benson
“The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.” HumansHuman BeingsPleasureMusicArgumentJazz Author:Ornette Coleman
“There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.” TryingArtLawPleasureMusicAirSeaSkyWindTheoryElementsTraditionAcademicBoundlessMusic LoveBarrenI Love Music Author:Claude Debussy