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
The point is not to take the worlds opinion as a guiding star but to go ones way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. – Gustav Mahler
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. – Gustav Mahler
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. – Lafcadio Hearn