Gustav Mahler Quotes
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Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
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The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
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There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
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It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.
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With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
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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.
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Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
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I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
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Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
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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.
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When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
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To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
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All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
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That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.
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I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
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But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.
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It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
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I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
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Life's been nothing but paperwork.
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It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.
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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.
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Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
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If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
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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.
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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
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It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
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The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
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