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Music Quotes by Gustav Mahler
- What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
- In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
- It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the…
- If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
- A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
- The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
- In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
- The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
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