Gustav Holst

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

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us,_x000D_ The Holy Twelve dance with us,_x000D_ All things join in the dance!_x000D_ Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

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

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