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Quotes About Pleasure

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.
~ TobyMac
Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural.
~ Rajneesh
Music is the brandy of the damned.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.
~ Gianni Versace
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
~ Tom Petty
Next to music beer was best.
~ Carson McCullers
I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.
~ Wally Amos
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
~ James Nasmyth
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.
~ Blaise Pascal
There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.
~ Louis Armstrong
I really like listening to music in my car.
~ Aaron Neville
An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
~ Hugh Hopper
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)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Temptation hath a music for all ears.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.
~ John Calvin
As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.
~ Erin McKeown
My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.
~ Marc Anthony
I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.
~ Kim Wilde
one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
~ William Wordsworth
Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.
~ Karl Blossfeldt