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Famous Gustav Mahler Quotes
“It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.”
“I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.”
“Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.”
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
“It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.”
“In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.”
“Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.”
“If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.”
“There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.”