Mahler Quotes
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Mahler Quotes & Sayings
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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
A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
— 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
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
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
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
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
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
— 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
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
— Gustav Mahler
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
— Gustav Mahler
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
— 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
I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
— 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
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