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

— Gustav Holst

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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.

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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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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