Gustav Mahler
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
-Gustav Mahler
beauty
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.
-Gustav Mahler
failure
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
-Gustav Mahler
future
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
-Gustav Mahler
hope
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
-Gustav Mahler
music
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
-Gustav Mahler
music
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