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