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

~Gustav Mahler

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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.

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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

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It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

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

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

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Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

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Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

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The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

~Gustav Mahler

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Composer

Born: July 7th, 1860

Died: May 18th, 1911

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