Gustav Holst famous quotes

04-17-2025

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.
-- Gustav Holst

#Music #Heaven #Eternity
Iâ€™ve learned what â€˜classicalâ€™ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
-- Gustav Holst

#Mean #Joy
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
-- Gustav Holst

#Nuisance #Composing
Music-making as a means of getting money is hell
-- Gustav Holst

#Mean #Get Money #Hell
Always ask for advice but never take it.
-- Gustav Holst

#Advice
The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.
-- Gustav Holst

#Knowing #Twelve #Spheres
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.
-- Gustav Holst

#Space #Understanding #Brain
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.
-- Gustav Holst

#Might #Rooms #Rate
One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.
-- Gustav Holst

#Differences #Knowing #Advantage
I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
-- Gustav Holst

#Mean #Joy #Musical

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