Gustav Mahler Quotes


A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. Gustav Mahler Personality 95
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 41
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 Between 30
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 25
The real art of conducting consists in transitions. Gustav Mahler Music 23

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