Gustav Mahler Quotes

• Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

  Gustav Mahler

  Fire, History, Ashes

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Music, Symphony, World

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Musical, Classical Music, Notes

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• No se trata de tomar la opinión del mundo como estrella guía, sino de seguir el propio camino en la vida y en el trabajo sin equivocarse, sin deprimirse por el fracaso ni dejarse seducir por el aplauso.

  Gustav Mahler

  Depressing, Stars, Way In Life

  Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Donald Mitchell, Knud Martner (1973). “Gustav Mahler: memories and letters”, John Murray Publishers

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• Si un compositor pudiera decir lo que tiene que decir con palabras, no se molestaría en intentar decirlo con música.

  Gustav Mahler

  Funny, Music, Expression

  Letter to Max Marschalk, March 26, 1896.

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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

  Music, Funny Things, Needs

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Inspiring, Wall, Giving

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• To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

  Gustav Mahler

  Writing, Symphony, World

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• Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed

  Gustav Mahler

  Failure, Two, Numbers

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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

  Austria, World, Homeless

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.

  Gustav Mahler

  Elígeme

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• God can only be comprehended as Love.

  Gustav Mahler

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• Debes renunciar a toda superficialidad, a todo convencionalismo, a toda vanidad y engaño.

  Gustav Mahler

  Vanity, Renounce, Conventions

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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

  Cristiano, Hombres, Alegría

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• Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

  Gustav Mahler

  Flames, Ashes, Tradition

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Writing, Thinking, Boring

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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

  Differences, Giving, Perfect

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Way, Opinion, Oneself

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Different, Persons, Knows

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• Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

  Gustav Mahler

  Invention, Divine

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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

  Scare, Peculiar, Helping

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• It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

  Gustav Mahler

  Should, Sole, Endeavor

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• It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

  Gustav Mahler

  Pieces, Achieve, Easier

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• In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

  Gustav Mahler

  Cells, World, United

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Knowing, Firsts, Strange

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