Quote by Gustav Mahler
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not b

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler

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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

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The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. – Gustav Mahler

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A true 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. – Gustav Mahler

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My aim is just to make good music every single time. – Lil Wayne

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. – Plato

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