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It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Gustav Mahler
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Gustav Mahler
Age: 50 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 7
Died: 1911
Died: May 18
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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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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
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I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
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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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Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.
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Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
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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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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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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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Tradition is laziness.
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
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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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