Gustav Mahler Quotes

• He is young and perhaps he is right. Maybe my ear is not sensitive enough.

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• Fortissimo at last!

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• A symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything.

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• The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

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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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• You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

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• With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

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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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• What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

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• To judge a composer’s work, one must consider it as a whole.

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• There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

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• The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

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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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• The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

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• Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

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• Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one’s way.

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• Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

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Gustav Mahler (46)

Birth:	7th July, 1860
Death:	18th May, 1911
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Composer, Music Conductor

About

Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. A Jew, he was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then the Austrian Empire, now Kaliste in the Czech Republic. His family later moved to nearby Iglau, where Mahler grew up.

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