Music Quote by Samuel Johnson

Pleasure itself is not a vice

— Samuel Johnson

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

— Confucius

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

— Fernando Pessoa

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

— Joseph Addison

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

— Michel de Montaigne

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

— Alan Jay Lerner

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

— Dick Dale

“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how play best, but with a listener who understands nothing or does not wish to understand…

— Lebo Grand

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

— Ovid

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

— Michel de Montaigne

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

— George C. Marshall