Top 18 Holst's 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. been used to look in Hertfordshire - paid his
Jane Austen
#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
#6. Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#7. There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.
Gustav Holst
#9. I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it, what they wanted, what they hoped for - more than I could learn from books alone.
Dean Koontz
#10. The men we met walked past, slow, unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of a over-burdened earth had weighted their feet, bowed their shoulders, borne down their glances
Joseph Conrad
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.
Nia Long
#14. Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.
Gustav Holst
#15. I've learned what 'classical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
Gustav Holst
#16. 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
#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
