Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
- Gustav Mahler
Always, Idle, Let Us, Remains
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
- Gustav Mahler
Me, Should, Even, Censure
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
Homeless, Bohemia, Am, Native
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
- Gustav Mahler
World, Normal, Note, Eighth
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
Question, New, Tracing, Unknown
It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
- Gustav Mahler
See, Endeavor, Sole, Anew
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
- Gustav Mahler
Always, Been, Wanted, Visualized
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
- Gustav Mahler
Never, Continue, Guided
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
- Gustav Mahler
Like, Cannot, Anyone, Sensible
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
- Gustav Mahler
Behind, Wasted, Sterile, Cracking
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
- Gustav Mahler
Gift, Signs, Melodic, Invention
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
- Gustav Mahler
Reach, Leave, Unless, Reluctance
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
- Gustav Mahler
Music, Art, Consists, Transitions
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
- Gustav Mahler
Perfect, Perish, Smallest, Doomed
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
- Gustav Mahler
World, Like, Contain, Symphony
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
Star, Seduced, Guiding, Applause
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
- Gustav Mahler
Music, Small, Meant, Meant To Be
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
Young, Very, Had, Great Talent
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
- Gustav Mahler
Never, Pose, Beg, Assume
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
- Gustav Mahler
Moment, Young, Himself, Passions
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
- Gustav Mahler
Think, Audience, Boring, Slower
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
- Gustav Mahler
Delusion, Must, Convention, Superficiality
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
Beauty, Play, Having, Orchestra
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
- Gustav Mahler
Through, Itself, Form, Assert
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
- Gustav Mahler
Nature, Air, Again, Breathe
An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
- Gustav Mahler
Small, Opera, Simply, Gay
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
- Gustav Mahler
Better, Happier, Certainly, Different Person
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
- Gustav Mahler
Result, Pieces, Desired, Easier
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
- Gustav Mahler
View, Looking, Bother, Composed
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
- Gustav Mahler
Music, Thoughts, His, Further
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
- Gustav Mahler
Love, Call, Very, Hollow
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
- Gustav Mahler
Future, Future Life, Form, Gave
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
- Gustav Mahler
Music, Bother, Would, Composer
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
- Gustav Mahler
Work, Must, Whole, Composer
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
- Gustav Mahler
Love, Ending, Most, Generally
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
- Gustav Mahler
I Am, Head, Against, Walls
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
- Gustav Mahler
I Am, Were, Am, Symphonies
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
Learn, Will, More, Few Men
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
- Gustav Mahler
Destiny, Making, Happier, Smiles
It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
- Gustav Mahler
How, Going, Feels, Knowing
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
- Gustav Mahler
Will, Your, Accuse, Count
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
- Gustav Mahler
Nature, I Am, Calm, Spring
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
- Gustav Mahler
Every Day, Away, Carried, My Own
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
- Gustav Mahler
Work, Discipline
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