„Wagner wrote an opera titled Tristan and Yseult and in it there is a theme called Love Death theme. It is so sensual, so sexual that he was criticized for having introduced sex into music. And that was quite a few years before the appearance of Elvis Presley!“

— Henry Miller

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„What do you think of Puccini?[ Britten: "I think his operas are dreadful." ]No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
„Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.“
— Ravi Zacharias
„So let’s respect the pedophile’s right to have sex with a 2-year-old?“
— Jair Bolsonaro
„A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.“
— Stanley Kubrick