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Top 60 Gustav Mahler Quotes (2024 Update)

Gustav Mahler Quote: “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Discipline, work. Work, discipline.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “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 Quote: “Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “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.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “If you think you’re boring your audience, go slower not faster.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Tradition is laziness.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “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.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Life’s been nothing but paperwork.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “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 Quote: “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “I don’t choose what I compose. It chooses me.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Don’t bother looking at the view – I have already composed it.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “God can only be comprehended as Love.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “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.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “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 Quote: “I don’t let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “If I weren’t the way I am, I shouldn’t write my symphonies.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “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.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Only when I experience do I compose – only when I compose do I experience.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Don’t bother to look, I’ve composed all this already.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “I have become a different person. I don’t know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one’s way.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.”
Gustav Mahler Quote: “In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.”
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