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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen. — Antonio Damasio

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera. — Gustav Mahler

My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles — Gustav Mahler

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew. — Gustav Mahler

A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth! — Gustav Mahler

I beg of you ... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise. — Gustav Mahler

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going. — Gustav Mahler

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. — Gustav Mahler

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one. — Gustav Mahler

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. — Gustav Mahler

With the coming of spring, I am calm again. — Gustav Mahler

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it. — Gustav Mahler

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand. — Gustav Mahler

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God. — Gustav Mahler

Man lives in greatest pain — Gustav Mahler

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. — Gustav Mahler

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience. — Gustav Mahler

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. — Gustav Mahler

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. — Gustav Mahler

The real art of conducting consists in transitions. — Gustav Mahler

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. — Gustav Mahler

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier. — Gustav Mahler

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces. — Gustav Mahler

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world. — Gustav Mahler

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty. — Clive James

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work. — I.M. Pei

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. — Gustav Mahler

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. — Gustav Mahler

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. — Gustav Mahler

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street. — Charles Bukowski

Sadness is a cloak that covers our heart, but it can never extinguish love. — Barbara A. Mahler

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. — Gustav Mahler

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier. — Gustav Mahler

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. — Gustav Mahler

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way. — Gustav Mahler

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster. — Gustav Mahler

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

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift. — Gustav Mahler

I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish — Gustav Mahler

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. — 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

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone. — Gustav Mahler

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. — Gustav Mahler

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. — Gustav Mahler

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. — Gustav Mahler

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. — Gustav Mahler

Life's been nothing but paperwork. — Gustav Mahler

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. — Gustav Mahler

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed — Gustav Mahler

Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes. — Gustav Mahler

I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me. — Gustav Mahler

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler

Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already. — Gustav Mahler

Einstein Freud Marx Proust Mahler Mendelssohn Chagall & don't forget Dr. Jonas Salk ... & still they hate us! — Sonia Taitz

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

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. — Gustav Mahler

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form. — Gustav Mahler

Tradition is laziness. — Gustav Mahler

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes. — Gustav Mahler

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. — Rufus Wainwright

God can only be comprehended as Love. — Gustav Mahler