Anyway here are some Music Food Quotes courtesy of FoodReference com
http://www.foodreference.com/html/qmusic.html
“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.”
Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (1843-1907)
"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die."
William Shakespeare, ‘Twelfth Night’
"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
G.K Chesterton (1874-1936)
[Sorry GK, can't agree with you on that one]
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence"
Robert Fripp, guitarist and cofounder of the band King Crimson (1969)
“The
fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry,
music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being
pastry.”
Antonin Careme [Marie-Antoine Careme] (1783-1833)
“We
may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience,
and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live
without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1831-1891) ‘Lucile’ (1860)
[Do KFC, McDonald's, fish and chip shops, pizza parlours etc also count?]
“The local wine, a dinner at your friends' house, and music performed by amateurs are three things to be equally dreaded.”
Grimod de la Reynière (1758-1838)
[Lockdowns would have held no fear for this gentleman it seems]
“Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.”
Harry James
“Give me book, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors played by someone I do not know.”
John Keats
[Was this always a surprisingly difficult combination to find in the UK?]
“Some
people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the
basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.”
Julia Child
“To give life to beauty,
the painter uses a whole range of colours, musicians of sounds, the
cook of tastes -- and it is indeed remarkable that there are seven
colours, seven musical notes and seven tastes.”
Lucien Tendret (1825-1896)
“Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
[Someone said that life without music made little sense - many might say the same for alcohol]