instructive quotes

Music is no different from opium. Music affects the human mind in a way that makes peoplethinkof nothing but music and sensual matters† Music is a treason to the country, a treason to our youth, and we should cut out all this music and replace it with something instructive.

- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
  Ramadan speech, 23  Jul. Quoted in Lebrecht Discord (1982).