All Gustav Mahler Quotes
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
Gustav Mahler
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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
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Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav Mahler
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If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Gustav Mahler
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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Gustav Mahler
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler
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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
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The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Gustav Mahler
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Gustav Mahler
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Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
Gustav Mahler
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What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
Gustav Mahler
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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.
Gustav Mahler
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Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
Gustav Mahler
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler
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