In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. — 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
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
