God can only be comprehended as Love.

- Gustav Mahler

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

- Gustav Mahler

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

- Gustav Mahler

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

- Gustav Mahler

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

- Gustav Mahler

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 s…

- Gustav Mahler

I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.

- Gustav Mahler

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

- Gustav Mahler

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, nev…

- Gustav Mahler