Quoted in Michael Short, Gustav Holst 1874-1934: A Centenary Documentation
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“Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.”
Cited in Imogen Holst The Music of Gustav Holst (1951) p. 73 as "His favourite piece of advice".
Remark to Clifford Bax, reported in Imogen Holst Gustav Holst: A Biography (1969) p. 81.
“Always ask for advice but never take it.”
Paul Holmes Holst (1997) p. 106.
Holst's maxim according to Vaughan Williams.
Letter to W G Whittaker, 1914, quoted in Paul Holmes Holst p. 62.
Letter to W G Whittaker, 1914, quoted in Paul Holmes Holst p. 62.