quotes about Mahler
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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 -
You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.
-- Clive James -
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
-- Gustav Mahler -
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
-- Maureen Forrester -
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My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
-- Patti LuPone -
To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure.
-- Lorin Maazel
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Source : "Q&A: Will Wright, creator of the Sims". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. Ocotber 26, 2007.
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“I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.”
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“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”
Source : Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.102
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“Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.”
Source : Reinhard Bendix (1989). “Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge”, p.187, Transaction Publishers
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