Quote

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Gustav Mahler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gustav Mahler
Age: 50 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 7
Died: 1911
Died: May 18
Classical Composer
Composer
Conductor
Musician
Mahler
Cracking
Sterile
Wasted
Branches
Behinds
Behind
Existence

More quotes by Gustav Mahler

Image
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler
Image
A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
Gustav Mahler
Image
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Gustav Mahler
Image
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.
Gustav Mahler
Image
Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.
Gustav Mahler
Image
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
Gustav Mahler
Image
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler
Image
I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
Gustav Mahler
Image
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
Gustav Mahler
Image
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
Gustav Mahler
Image
Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.
Gustav Mahler
Image
An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
Gustav Mahler
Image
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Gustav Mahler
Image
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Gustav Mahler
Image
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Gustav Mahler
Image
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
Gustav Mahler
Image
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.
Gustav Mahler
Image
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
Gustav Mahler
Image
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
Gustav Mahler
Image
Tradition is laziness.
Gustav Mahler