You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Too bad Mahler never saw a Morley wah-wah pedal, he thought, or he would have scored it into one of his longer… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Mahler; you cannot go back after listening to him. He is the future!” — Orkhan Mirzesoy Copy Share Image
“I am dead to the world’s tumult, And rest in a quiet realm! I live alone in my heaven, In my love,… — Friedrich Rückert Copy Share Image
Schopenhauer's thought that Will is insatiable, that once satisfied in one form it must be expressed in new desires, is inherited both… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“To its left stood a transistor radio, which was emitting and indeed had been emitting for some considerable time, a symphonic movement… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Alma also had a brief dalliance with Klimt. Actually, just name any famous man from the period, and you can assume that… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of… — Jeffrey Tate Copy Share Image
I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
“Most of the people around me yesterday were middle-aged or old. I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Mahler was a poor yea-sayer. His voice cracks, like Nietzsche’s, when he proclaims values, speaks from mere conviction, when he himself puts… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Britten's opera tends to see things in simpler terms. It portrays an Aschenbach who wants a richer form of sexual fulfillment, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions… — Gerald Kaufman Copy Share Image
Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play… — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He… — Lorin Maazel Copy Share Image
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The… — Manny Laureano Copy Share Image
I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing.… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere –… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
![“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will answer him with the fourth movement [of his Fourth Symphony]: “This is the life of the Kingdom of Heaven.” quote by Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a8e/gustav-mahler-9935_aesthetics_when-a-man-filled-with-a-mixture-of-reve_997036.jpg)
