When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
It’s not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. Gustav Mahler Read Quote
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. Gustav Mahler Read Quote