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

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

Gustav Mahler

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Gustav Mahler

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

Gustav Mahler

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Gustav Mahler

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

Gustav Mahler