Gustav Mahler Quotes - Page 2

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• Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

  Gustav Mahler

  Experience

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• It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

  Gustav Mahler

  Knowing, Firsts, Strange

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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.

  Gustav Mahler

  Nature, Spring, Air

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• I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

  Gustav Mahler

  Different, Persons, Knows

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• It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

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  Should, Sole, Endeavor

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Judging, Composer, Whole

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• Life's been nothing but paperwork.

  Gustav Mahler

  Paperwork

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Differences, Mahler, World

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• In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

  Gustav Mahler

  Cells, World, United

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• All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

  Gustav Mahler

  Fate, Perfect, Details

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• Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

  Gustav Mahler

  Views, Bother

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• It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

  Gustav Mahler

  Pieces, Achieve, Easier

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• The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

  Gustav Mahler

  Life, Change, Music

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• 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, My Own

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• Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

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  Idle, Remains, Idleness

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• 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

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• I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

  Gustav Mahler

  Sensible

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• For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.

  Gustav Mahler

  Ideas, Appreciate, Desire

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• 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

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• In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

  Gustav Mahler

  Drama, Admire, Theatrical

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• Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

  Gustav Mahler

  Fate, Destiny, Bits

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Form, Impression, My Future

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• Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

  Gustav Mahler

  Branches, Existence, Behinds

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• Tradition is laziness.

  Gustav Mahler

  Laziness, Tradition

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• If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

  Gustav Mahler

  Writing, Symphony, Way

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