Gustav Holst Quotes
- Music-making as a means of getting money is hell
- Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
- Always ask for advice but never take it.
- I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
- 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…
- There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.
- Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.