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> [What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/what-is-best-in-music-is-not-to-be-found-in-the-notes/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

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## More by Gustav Mahler

> [It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/it-is-always-the-same-with-me-only-when-i-experience-something-do-i/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [God can only be comprehended as Love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/god-can-only-be-comprehended-as-love/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/all-that-is-not-perfect-down-to-the-smallest-detail-is-doomed-to/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/a-true-personality-is-like-a-robust-organism-that-with-unconscious/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/my-time-will-come-that-is-after-the-finish-of-the-recurring-song/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/only-when-i-experience-do-i-compose-only-when-i-compose-do-i/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/i-am-thrice-homeless-as-a-bohemian-as-an-austrian-and-all-over-the/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/i-am-thrice-homeless-as-a-native-of-bohemia-in-austria-as-an-austrian/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/it-should-be-one-s-sole-endeavor-to-see-everything-afresh-and-create/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/it-is-easier-to-achieve-a-desired-result-in-short-pieces/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/for-the-last-month-i-have-been-a-strict-vegetarian-the-moral-effects/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/both-my-marriages-were-failures-number-one-departed-and-number-two/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/i-live-like-a-hottentot-i-cannot-exchange-one-sensible-word-with/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/i-beg-of-you-never-assume-an-inner-or-an-outer-pose-never-a-disguise/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

> [Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustav-mahler/fortunately-something-always-remains-to-be-harvested-so-let-us-not-be/)

[Gustav Mahler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustav-mahler/)

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