Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.

Charles Bukowski
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Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent. If you were to take the art form of sex and boil it down to one phrase, it would not be this quote. It does express the idea that music can be a source of great pleasure for both the composer and the listener, but it misses the point that music is complicated and that musical composition is a long process that involves many steps. The quote itself is an oldie, but a goodie. It is also a play on words that use the word “music” as an “art form” that is like sex, where “composer” equates to “fucker” and “orgasm” equates to “climax.”

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