Gustav mahler music quotes

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

#Funny#Music#Piano

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Life#Change#Music

A symphony must be like the world.

It must contain everything.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Music#Symphony#World

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Writing#Thinking#Boring

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Views#Bother

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer!

I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Spring#Air#House

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

#Idle#Remains

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

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