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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.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Funny #Music #Piano
“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Life #Change #Music
“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Music #Symphony #World
“If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Writing #Thinking #Boring
“Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Views #Bother
“Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Spring #Air #House
“Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Idle #Remains
“The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Used #Composer
“All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Fate #Perfect #Details
“In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Space #Chamber Music #Audience
“What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Musical #Notes #Found
“With the coming of spring, I am calm again.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Spring #Calm
“A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Wine #Earth #Kingdoms
“I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Ideas #Abandon
“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

#Depressing #Stars #World
“In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Cells #World #United
“Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Flames #Ashes #Tradition
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Fire #Ashes #Worship
“I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Inspiring #Wall #Giving
“Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Invention #Divine
“When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Reluctance #Summit #Higher
“To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Judging #Composer
“The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Spirit #Form #Clear
“The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Form #Impression #My Future
“The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Love #Rocks #Sound
“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

#Pathways #Steps #Conquer
“I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Crazy #Passion #Men
“In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Drama #Admire #Theatrical
“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

#Play #Numbers #Orchestra
“I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.”
-- Gustav Mahler

#Assuming #Never Assume #Disguise

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