Famous Gustav Mahler Quotes
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
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Gustav Mahler
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
Gustav Mahler
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler
Don’t bother looking at the view – I have already composed it.
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
If you think you’re boring your audience, go slower not faster.
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
