Gustav MahlerIt's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.373Life
Gustav MahlerWe 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. Wha… ▶331LifePhilosophy
Gustav MahlerTo write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.375Sadness
Gustav MahlerIn its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.342Death
Gustav MahlerAll that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.376Politics
Gustav MahlerI am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.343Sadness
Gustav MahlerIn Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.377Hope
Gustav MahlerWhen I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.367Love
Gustav MahlerThe impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.323HopeLifeTime
Gustav MahlerThe 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. ✨ Al… ▶367Life
Gustav MahlerWith the coming of spring, I am calm again.379Reading
Gustav MahlerTradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.368Humor
Gustav MahlerThe further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.335Thought
Gustav MahlerI hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.335Hope
Gustav MahlerThe call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.346Love
Gustav MahlerI don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.325Love
Gustav MahlerFor 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 desi… ▶303HumanityLifeReading
Gustav MahlerThe real art of conducting consists in transitions.369Death
Gustav MahlerEven if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.271Humanity
Gustav MahlerThe spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.337Humor
Gustav MahlerIt 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 q… ▶316HumorLife
Gustav MahlerI 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. ✨ Biography… ▶295Hope
Gustav MahlerAn operetta is simply a small and gay opera.284Life
Gustav MahlerDon't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.252Reading
Gustav MahlerDestiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.3110Sadness
Gustav MahlerBehind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.243Life
Gustav MahlerIf you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.232DeathThought
Gustav MahlerI have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.278Humor
Gustav MahlerI was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.234LoveTime
Gustav MahlerYou must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.279Love
