Gustav Mahler Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Musician, Composing

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• An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

  Gustav Mahler

  Gay, Opera

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• The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

  Gustav Mahler

  Love, Rocks, Sound

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• 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

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• 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

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• With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

  Gustav Mahler

  Spring, Calm, Spring May

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• Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.

  Gustav Mahler

  Fire, Ashes, Tradition

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• 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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• Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.

  Gustav Mahler

  Musical, Looks, Bother

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• 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

  Brother, Men, Musician

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• What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

  Gustav Mahler

  Composing, Wanted

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• The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

  Gustav Mahler

  Spirit, Form, Clear

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• The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

  Gustav Mahler

  Used, Composer, Complexes

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• I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

  Gustav Mahler

  Understanding, Delicacy

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• Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

  Gustav Mahler

  Hate, Hands, People

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