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Gustav Mahler Quotes

«If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.»
Author: Gustav Mahler (Composer, Conductor) | About: Music | Keywords: bother, composer, Say It, trying
«The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.»
«A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.»
«At last, fortissimo! [On visiting Niagara]»
«Don't bother looking at the view -- I have already composed it.»
«If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.»
«The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi . . .»
«Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed»
«Can this be endured at all? Won't people kill themselves afterwards?»
«Fortissimo at last!( on seeing Niagara Falls )»