My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all,… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
