Quotes About Temptation

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.

The devil won't stay where there is music.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.