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Gustav Mahler
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Gustav Mahler
Age: 50 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 7
Died: 1911
Died: May 18
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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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I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
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It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
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Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.
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In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
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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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I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
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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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Tradition is laziness.
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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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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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An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
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What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
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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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God can only be comprehended as Love.
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
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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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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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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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