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If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Gustav Mahler
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
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Gustav Mahler
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Gustav Mahler
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav Mahler
For a month now I have been an out-and-out vegetarian. The moral effect of this way of life, with its voluntary castigation of the body, causing one's material needs to dwindle away, is enormous. You can judge for yourself how utterly I [am] convinced of it, when I tell you that I expect of it no less than the regeneration of humanity. All I can tell you is: let yourself be converted to a natural way of living, but one in which you eat suitable food (compost-grown, stone-ground, wholemeal bread) and soon you will see the fruits of your endeavours.
Gustav Mahler
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Gustav Mahler
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Gustav Mahler
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
Gustav Mahler
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
Gustav Mahler
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler
It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Gustav Mahler
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
Gustav Mahler
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
Gustav Mahler
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Gustav Mahler
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
Gustav Mahler
It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
Gustav Mahler
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
Gustav Mahler
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
Gustav Mahler
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler
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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