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Life's been nothing but paperwork.

Gustav Mahler

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Gustav Mahler
Age: 50 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 7
Died: 1911
Died: May 18
Classical Composer
Composer
Conductor
Musician
Mahler
Paperwork
Nothing
Life

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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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I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
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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.
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I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
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It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
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Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
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An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
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A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
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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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What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
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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.
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God can only be comprehended as Love.
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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
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There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
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Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.
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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.
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I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
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