If music writing be the food of love...

...read on.

It seems that Kelefa Sanneh can't keep himself from quoting Shakespeare in his recent NYT articles. His thoughts on the new Tom Moulton dance mix sneak in this re-worked chestnut:

"His discovery seems obvious now: he realized that the thumping, dance-floor-friendly soul records of the early 70's would sound that much better, and thumpinger, if he made them longer. (Apparently brevity isn't the soul of soul.)"

More recently, his great piece on New Orleans hip-hop and it's place in the city's culture of preservation places Julius Caesar alongside Juvenile (which seems about right):

"Believe it or not, that question brings us back to the Smithsonian, which has come to praise hip-hop. Or to bury it. Or both."

For what it's worth, I once tried to quote Thomas Payne in a CD review. My editor thought better of it, thankfully.