You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
For me, the most luxurious place is somewhere that allows you to feel emotions and pleasures.
My pleasure is only superficial: in oily droplets it lies on my skin without being absorbed.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically. (Waterstones Trafalgar Square)
The dreams of a pure life, The dreams of a loving wife, Find pleasure in a Godly life.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.