Gustav Holst quotes
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“Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.”
-- Gustav HolstSource : Gustav Holst, Michael Short, William Gillies Whittaker (1974). “Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker”, University of Glasgow French and German Publications
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“I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.”
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“Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.”
-- Gustav HolstSource : Gustav Holst, Michael Short, William Gillies Whittaker (1974). “Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker”, University of Glasgow French and German Publications
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“Music-making as a means of getting money is hell”
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“Always ask for advice but never take it.”
-- Gustav HolstSource : Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst (1959). “Heirs and rebels: letters written to each other and occasional writings on music”
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“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.”
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“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 HolstSource : "Gustav Holst 1874-1934: A Centenary Documentation". Book by Michael Short, 1974.
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“There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.”
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“One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.”
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“I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.”
-- Gustav Holst
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