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Gustav Mahler
Austrian
Composer
About the author
An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Gay
#Opera
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#World
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Detail
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,
Austrian
Composer
#Play
#Beauty
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Destiny
#Smiles
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Existence
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Word
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Man
#Impulses
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Words
#Trying
#Music
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Giving
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Beginnings
#Music
#Space
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Love
#Ending
#Drama
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Now
#Hope
#Will
#Understanding
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Disguise
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.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Life
#Man
#Talent
#Brother
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Result
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#People
#Censure
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Day
#Ideas
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Life
#Future
#Content
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Music
#Thoughts
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Work
#Discipline
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Spring
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Work
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#World
#Difference
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.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Life
#World
#Failure
#Applause
#Opinion
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Art
It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#First
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Delusion
#Vanity
#Superficiality
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Love
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Spring
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Opinion
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Invention
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,
Austrian
Composer
#Question
It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Spirit
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.
Gustav Mahler,
Austrian
Composer
#Will
#Men
#Difference