Andy Olson

“A gambit that was unusual and highly charged at one time (say, the diminished seventh at the start of the nineteenth century) can come to seem ordinary and ineffective after repeated use (say, the diminished seventh by the end of the nineteenth century).”
― Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

“There’s a lot of wine involved and creeping off into corners with men. Meanwhile they call themselves a prayer group! Obviously it’s just sex. I’ve put most of them in jail.”
― Euripides, Bakkhai

“that shock of fear that runs right through an army before battle, that shock is Dionysos.”
― Euripides, Bakkhai

“the transcendent gladness of grapes and wine so beneficial to body, soul and psyche’s interior design.”
― Euripides, Bakkhai