Holst Quotes

#1. I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.

Charles Hazlewood

#2. He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.
Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes.

Craig Raine

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

Gustav Holst

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

Gustav Holst

#5. At times he would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp would burn out, and still he could not tear himself away. And so Avdyeitch used to read every evening.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Gustav Holst

#7. Fear is easily experienced, but fun is hard to come by in old age, so I already felt a sense of gratitude to General Omar Torrijos.

Graham Greene

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

Gustav Holst

#9. Awareness hurts. Relationships hurts. Life hurts. But to float, to drift, to live in the dream does not hurt.

Anais Nin

#10. Hang up and drive!

Corey Holst

#11. To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

Dan Millman

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I am a clown...and I collect moments.

Heinrich Boll

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

Gustav Holst

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

Gustav Holst

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

Gustav Holst

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

Gustav Holst