The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one’s way. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young… he killed himself in the prime of his life. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
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. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
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. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
I don’t let myself get carried away by my own ideas – I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. Gustav Mahler Read Quote