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I call this my church house trilogy. Souls` Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it`s the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it`s been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.

- Marty Stuart

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

- Robert Stevenson

I lived in a tepee in the living room, which already had a cathedral ceiling being English Tudor. I dreampt a lot. I drew. I was a bit of a child prodigy and would be taken to fairs, set up my easel and do 100 portraits. Later I took commissions from the Rye Art Store and made good money until I started to feel like a plastic surgeon with all the babes requests to remove age lines. I went to NYU and was supposed to be a scenic designer but I kept sneaking into acting classes. I was studying with the great Bill Hickey in my off time, playing a delivery boy on a soap opera and doing off-off Broadway. I had to make a choice. I chose acting.

- Bud Cort
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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

- Robert Hughes

The cathedral will be saved,

- John McGrath

There`s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--

- Emily Dickinson

(The look that`s) in is very straight lines, very sleek. Shaker-type door styles are popular right now. Cathedral door styles are not.

- Rebecca Jones

Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

- Alvin James

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

- Amano Samarpan

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

- Amber Harris

(Cathedral City City Councilman Paul Marchand piggybacked off another`s question regarding the price of gasoline. Marchand focused on Westly`s intention to run for governor and asked for) a commitment to (putting California) on a leading edge (of clean technology) beyond just hybrid vehicles, ... absolutely and unequivocally yes.

- Barbara Kaiser

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I believe talent is like electricity. We don`t understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no

- Maya Angelou

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

- Frank Lloyd Wright