A note not on Mill and music but Bentham and the same. Mill, in his 1838 essay on Bentham, says the following: "Much more has been said than there is any foundation for, about his [Bentham's] contempt for the pleasures of the imagination, and for the fine arts. Music was throughout his life his favourite amusement..." He goes on to speak about Bentham and painting, sculpture and the other arts. Poetry fares badly, as everyone knows, but it is hard to imagine the same Mill who spent a lot of time with Bentham as a youth would not have imbibed something of the master's taste for music. Neil De Marchi