Song Quotes 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,…

— Gustav Mahler

God can only be comprehended as Love.

— Gustav Mahler

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

— Gustav Mahler

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it…

— Gustav Mahler

My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles

— Gustav Mahler

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

— Gustav Mahler

I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish

— 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…

— Gustav Mahler

It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

— Gustav Mahler

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

— 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…

— Gustav Mahler

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed

— Gustav Mahler

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

— Gustav Mahler

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

— Gustav Mahler

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

— Gustav Mahler