Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know… — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the… — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
