What was it that drove these thousands into the arms of his art - what but the blissfully sensuous, searing, sense-consuming, intoxicating, hypnotically caressing, heavily upholstered - in a word, the luxurious quality of his music? (Thomas Mann)

What was it that drove these thousands into the arms of his art - what but the blissfully sensuous, searing, sense-consuming, intoxicating, hypnotically caressing, heavily upholstered - in a word, the luxurious quality of his music?

Thomas Mann

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