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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
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Life

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I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
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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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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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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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What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
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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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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 have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
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When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
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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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Tradition is laziness.
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In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
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There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
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To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
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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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Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.
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It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
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