96 Quotes by Gustav Mahler

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

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

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

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

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

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

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

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

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