Gustav Holst Quotes

#1. Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

Gustav Holst

#2. One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

Gustav Holst

#3. Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

E. O. Wilson

#4. I've learned what 'classical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

Gustav Holst

#5. Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

Gustav Holst

#6. Everybody should have the right to wear flip-flops in summer.

Sarah Carter

#7. Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

Meg Cabot

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. To respect the learned is to respect God

Imam Ali

#11. A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

Oscar Wilde

#12. There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

Gustav Holst

#13. Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

Stephane Hessel

#14. The one reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

Boman Irani

#16. Always ask for advice but never take it.

Gustav Holst

#17. Romantic ideas about the heart fly in the face of known fact, but that doesn't matter and never has. People many thousands of years ago knew that the heart is basically a blood pump, but that didn't keep them from also believing it was the seat of romantic love (and all other strong emotion).

George Fetherling

#18. I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

Olivia Culpo

#19. Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Gustav Holst

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

Gustav Holst

#21. "I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

Aristotle.