Quotes by Gustav Mahler - Page 2

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Higher
Reluctance
Summit
Leave
Reach
Unless
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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.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Men
Blinded
Crazy
Passion
Young Man
Impulses
Obeyed
Passions
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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.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Music
Space
Audience
Chamber
Chamber Music
Meant To Be
Beginnings
Meant
Listened
Merely
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Complexes
Composer
Used
Apparatus
Complex
Develops
Express
Further
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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.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Conquer
Pathways
Steps
Summit
Tracing
Unknown
Conquering
Pathway
Question
Step
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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Beauty
Fullness
Numbers
Orchestra
Play
Selected
Tone
Achieved
Carefully
High
Number
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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.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Men
Differences
Feels
Mere
Feel
Men Great Will
Between
Clearly
Difference
Few
Few Men
Learn
Longer
Truly
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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.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Austria
Bohemia
Homeless
Jew
Native
World
Everywhere
Am
World I Am Never
Among
Never
Germans
Throughout
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.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Failure
Applause
Depressing
Opinion
Stars
Way In Life
Life World Way
Star
Take
Depressed
Working
Guiding
Neither
Nor
Point
Seduced
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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.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Men
Brother
Composer
Died
Gifted
Great Talent
Musician
Prime
Talent
Life Great Man
Himself
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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.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Composing
Musician
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A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Personality
Robust
Unconscious
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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.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Helping
Peculiar
Scare
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It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Music
Answers
Funny Things
Needs
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That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Men
Christian
Joy
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We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Differences
Giving
Perfect
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For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.
Gustav Mahler / Composer
Appreciate
Desire
Ideas
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