Quotes about Gustav Mahler

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

#Gustav Mahler

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama...

#Gustav Mahler

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a...

#Gustav Mahler

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

#Gustav Mahler

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

#Gustav Mahler

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

#Gustav Mahler

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I...

#Gustav Mahler

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he...

#Gustav Mahler

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19...

#Gustav Mahler

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

#Gustav Mahler

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

#Gustav Mahler

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

#Gustav Mahler