I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

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• Gustav Mahler:

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

• Gustav Mahler:

  I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

• Gustav Mahler:

  I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

• Gustav Mahler:

  I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of

• Gustav Mahler:

  If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

• Gustav Mahler:

  In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a sm

• Gustav Mahler:

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

• Gustav Mahler:

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

• Gustav Mahler:

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

• Gustav Mahler:

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