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Gustav Holst Quotes

1874–1934 England

Gustavus Theodore von Holst (21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer and music teacher. He is best remembered for his choral music and works for orchestra, of which the most famous is certainly The Planets.

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Always ask for advice but never take it.

Paul Holmes Holst (1997)

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

Imogen Holst The Music of Gustav Holst (1951)

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

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

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gustav Holst (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.