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"27 Gustav Mahler Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 7 July 1860. Died: 18 May 1911 | Composer |

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

Best Music Found Notes
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With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Coming Spring Calm
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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.

Crazy Young Passions Moment
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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.

Music Chamber Listened Audience
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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Fortunately Something Harvested Idle
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It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

Strange Feels Foward First
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All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

All Perfect Detail Perish
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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Tradition Worship Ashes Fire
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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

Symphony World Contain Everything
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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.

Composer Say Words Music
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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

Point World Life Failure
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The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Spiritual Experiences Future Life
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The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

Love Sounds Immobile Rocks
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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.

Summit Great Reluctance Reach
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Man lives in greatest pain

Man Lives Greatest Pain
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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Renounce Convention Vanity Delusion
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

Beg Assume Pose Disguise
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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.

Live Learn Feel Men
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions

Real Art Conducting Transitions
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Melodic Invention Signs Divine gift
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Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
Discipline Work
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It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

One's Endeavour Afresh Anew
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The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Spirit Assert Medium Clear form
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Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

Never GuidedOpinions One's way
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Music Develops Composer Thoughts
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I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Hitting Against Walls Giving way
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To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

Write Symphony Construct World
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Gustav Mahler Quotes & Sayings