All Gustav Mahler Quotes
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
Gustav Mahler
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It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Gustav Mahler
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The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
Gustav Mahler
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In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Gustav Mahler
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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler
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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
Gustav Mahler
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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler
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I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
Gustav Mahler
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To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
Gustav Mahler
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I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
Gustav Mahler
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I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
Gustav Mahler
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I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
Gustav Mahler
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