Best Quotes by Gustav Mahler (Top 10)
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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Gustav Mahler
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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
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What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
Gustav Mahler
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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
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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Gustav Mahler
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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
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I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
Gustav Mahler
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If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Gustav Mahler
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A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
Gustav Mahler
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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
More Gustav Mahler Quotes
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All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
Gustav Mahler
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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Gustav Mahler