Author Profile
Gustav Mahler
1860 – 1911 • Austrian • Composer
44
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 44 quotesWhen I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.— Gustav Mahler
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.— Gustav Mahler
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.— Gustav Mahler
It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.— 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
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.— 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
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.— Gustav Mahler