“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