Twelfth Night

What does the opening line mean?

In Act 1 Scene 1, Orsino says "If music be the food of love, play on." What does this mean?

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The speaker is asking for music because he is frustrated in courtship and love: he wants to be over-stimulated with love so that he may lose his appetite for it.

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