Gustav Mahler
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Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor.
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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."
- "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."
- "A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
- "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 . . ."
- "Don't bother looking at the view -- I have already composed it."
- "If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster."
- "The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause."
- "What's best in music is not to be found in the notes."
- "Tradition is laziness"
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