Gustav Holst Inspirational Quotes (5)

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.

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

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

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.

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