Gustav Mahler Quotes - Page 2

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Pieces, Achieve, Easier

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Views, Bother

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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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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• The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

  Gustav Mahler

  Life, Change, Music

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• 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

  Men, Differences, Feels

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Idle, Remains, Idleness

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• A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

  Gustav Mahler

  Personality, Robust, Unconscious

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Sensible

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life's been nothing but paperwork.

  Gustav Mahler

  Paperwork

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Love, Rocks, Sound

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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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