Gustav Mahler Quotes

Gustav Mahler (43)

Birth:	7th July, 1860
Death:	18th May, 1911
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Composer, Music Conductor

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• The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

  Gustav Mahler

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• If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

  Gustav Mahler

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• You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

  Gustav Mahler

• With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

  Gustav Mahler

• When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

  Gustav Mahler

• What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

  Gustav Mahler

• To judge a composer’s work, one must consider it as a whole.

  Gustav Mahler

• There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

  Gustav Mahler

• The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

  Gustav Mahler

• 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.

  Gustav Mahler

• 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.

  Gustav Mahler

• The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

  Gustav Mahler

• The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

  Gustav Mahler

• The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

  Gustav Mahler

• Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

  Gustav Mahler

• Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one’s way.

  Gustav Mahler

• Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

  Gustav Mahler

• 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

• It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

  Gustav Mahler

• It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

  Gustav Mahler