Quotes By Gustav Mahler

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

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

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

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

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

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

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

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

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.