Author: Gustav Mahler

Quotes

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

- Gustav Mahler

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

- Gustav Mahler

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

- Gustav Mahler

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.

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

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

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

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

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

- Gustav Mahler

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

- Gustav Mahler

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