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God can only be comprehended as Love.
Gustav Mahler
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Gustav Mahler
Age: 50 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 7
Died: 1911
Died: May 18
Classical Composer
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Love
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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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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
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What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
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In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
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It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
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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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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 further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
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It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
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Tradition is laziness.
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Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
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Life's been nothing but paperwork.
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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 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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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
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An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
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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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A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
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