Gustav Mahler Quotes
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster. In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience. In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces. It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going. It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew. It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift. Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi. 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. The real art of conducting consists in transitions. The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form. There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note. To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
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