Gustav MahlerThinkers

Composition is not a matter of choosing. What you compose, chooses you.

Conducting's real art consists in transitions.

God is comprehensible only as Love.

Gustav Mahler is thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

Johann Sebastian Bach is a composer in which the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

Love is that thing which every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being.

The Operetta is simply a small and gay opera.

A Personality is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

Spring is a season that won't let us stay in the house any longer. It requires that we must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

A Symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

A Symphony is constructed like you were constructing a world.