Facts about Gustav Mahler

Occup.	Composer
From	Austria
Born	July 7, 1860
Died	May 18, 1911
Aged	50 years

Summary

Gustav Mahler was a famous Composer from Austria, who lived between July 7, 1860 and May 18, 1911. He/she became 50 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective. Our collection contains 35 quotes who is written / told by Gustav, under the main topic Music.

Related authors: Maureen Forrester (Musician), Bruno Walter (Composer)

35 Famous quotes by Gustav Mahler

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

Gustav Mahler

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

Gustav Mahler

"Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier"

Gustav Mahler

"I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding"

Gustav Mahler

"If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies"

Gustav Mahler

"All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish"

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

"I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier"

Gustav Mahler

"Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it"

Gustav Mahler

"Discipline, work. Work, discipline"

Gustav Mahler

"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

"I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise"

Gustav Mahler

"An operetta is simply a small and gay opera"

Gustav Mahler

"It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew"

Gustav Mahler

"In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience"

Gustav Mahler

"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift"

Gustav Mahler

"I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone"

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

"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

"In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage"

Gustav Mahler

"If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster"

Gustav Mahler

"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment"

Gustav Mahler

"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day"

Gustav Mahler

"Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle"

Gustav Mahler

"Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking"

Gustav Mahler

"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything"

Gustav Mahler

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

Gustav Mahler

"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way"

Gustav Mahler

"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

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

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

"It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces"

Gustav Mahler

"Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand"

Gustav Mahler

"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion"

Gustav Mahler

"With the coming of spring, I am calm again"

Gustav Mahler