Watch against inordinate sensual delight in even the

-Baxter, Richard
US  businessman,  passenger  on  the  hijacked  United  Airlines Flight 93 on11 September 2001.

Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.

-Hooker, Richard
  Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Of music. Quoted in Sir John Hawkins Johnsoniana (1787).

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.

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