“ Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? ”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903). copy citation
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
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Source | Man and Superman |
Topic | music hell |
Date | 1903 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3328/3328-h/3328-h.htm |
Context
“Vivan le femmine! Viva il buon vino!
THE STATUE. [taking up the tune an octave higher in his counter tenor]
Sostegno a gloria D'umanita.
THE DEVIL. Precisely. Well, he never sings for us now.
DON JUAN. Do you complain of that? Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? THE DEVIL. You dare blaspheme against the sublimest of the arts!
DON JUAN. [with cold disgust] You talk like a hysterical woman fawning on a fiddler.
THE DEVIL. I am not angry. I merely pity you. You have no soul; and you are unconscious of all that you lose.” source
THE STATUE. [taking up the tune an octave higher in his counter tenor]
Sostegno a gloria D'umanita.
THE DEVIL. Precisely. Well, he never sings for us now.
DON JUAN. Do you complain of that? Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? THE DEVIL. You dare blaspheme against the sublimest of the arts!
DON JUAN. [with cold disgust] You talk like a hysterical woman fawning on a fiddler.
THE DEVIL. I am not angry. I merely pity you. You have no soul; and you are unconscious of all that you lose.” source