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Lady Gaga
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Tiepolo: The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra
“Music, moody food of us that trade in love.”
Dr. Samuel Johnson accelerates the definition:
“It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.” Think of that the next time when you’re making your mind up between Mozart and a Mars bar!
![Samuel Johnson](https://interlude-cdn-blob-prod.azureedge.net/interlude-blob-storage-prod/2015/06/Samuel-JOhnson.jpg)
Samuel Johnson
“The only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.”
![Sydney Smith](https://interlude-cdn-blob-prod.azureedge.net/interlude-blob-storage-prod/2015/06/Sydney-Smith-238x300.jpg)
Sydney Smith
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
Sidney Lanier, on the other hand, takes it even further:
“Music is love in search of a word.” Do you think we could match him up with Thomas Carlyle and then we would know the words of the angels?
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Thomas Carlyle
George Herbert is distinctly unhelpful in his definition:
“Music helps not the toothache.”
![Sidney Lanier](https://interlude-cdn-blob-prod.azureedge.net/interlude-blob-storage-prod/2015/06/Sidney-Lanier-228x300.jpg)
Sidney Lanier
“A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert.”
Poor George Eliot feels out of the loop:
“Music sweeps by me like a messenger
Carrying a message that is not for me.“
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Cover your Ears!
“…what is not worth being spoken, is sung.”
So, what’s your definition of music: something that answers all problems or causes problems itself?