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Quotes About Phrygian

I hardly have the words to analyse why I like or love a piece of music – I have words, of course, but a layman's words, I don't really know what a cadence is, let alone a Phrygian cadence or an augmented sixth.
~ Robert Dessaix
The cult was supervised (like that of Ceres) by foreign priests (a Phrygian man and woman), as well as by galli (priests of Cybele) castrated like Attis, the companion who was both lover and son to the goddess. They emerged from the sanctuary only on procession days, notably when they went to bathe the idol in the waters of the Almo, on 27 March.
~ Robert Turcan
a Phrygian bonnet (a well-known symbol of the Republic)
~ Helen Graham