Gustav Mahler quotes - page 2

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. (Gustav Mahler)
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone. View quote
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Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. View quote
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In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. View quote
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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. View quote
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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. View quote
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With the coming of spring, I am calm again. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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An operetta is simply a small and gay opera. View quote
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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)
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form. View quote
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I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. View quote
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What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. View quote
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Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand. View quote
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Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. View quote
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If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. View quote
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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. View quote
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To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. View quote
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For myself I know that, as long as I can summarize my experience in words, I would certainly not make any music about it. View quote
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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)
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed. View quote
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Both my marriages were failures Number one departed, and number two stayed. View quote
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A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. View quote
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Life's been nothing but paperwork. View quote
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