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

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Source : Gustav Holst, Michael Short, William Gillies Whittaker (1974). “Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker”, University of Glasgow French and German Publications

Gustav Holst

#Music Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Eternity Quotes

“Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?”
“Stand up and walk. Move forward.”
“Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's how I got the nickname The Chemist.”
“When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.”
“There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.”
“But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?”
“When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.”
“As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.”

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