But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.
God can only be comprehended as Love. - Gustav Mahler
God can only be comprehended as Love.
- Gustav Mahler
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. - Gustav Mahler
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. - Gustav Mahler
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. - Gustav Mahler
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
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
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…
I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me. - Gustav Mahler
I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.
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
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…
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier. - Gustav Mahler
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
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