There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire
I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that its not about the ring and its not about the wedding. Its a grave thing, getting married. And its easy to get swept up in the wrong things. – Gwyneth Paltrow
The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater
