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Gustav Mahler Inspirational Quotes (39)

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Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.
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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.
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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.
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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
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God can only be comprehended as Love.
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
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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.
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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.
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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
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In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
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To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
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Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
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It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
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An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
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I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
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Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
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I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
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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.
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Tradition is laziness.
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I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
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I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
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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.
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