Gustav Mahler Quotes

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• A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
• We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a…
• Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.
• What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
• But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace.…
• It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a…
• I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an…
• Life's been nothing but paperwork.
• Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
• Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
• Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
• For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the…
• It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
• It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
• I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
• My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles
• I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish
• Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.
• Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
• Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

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