Mahler famous quotes

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
-- Antonio Damasio

#Writing #Mahler #Composer

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.
-- Clive James

#Mahler #Never Trust #Should

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
-- Gustav Mahler

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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
-- Maureen Forrester

#Spiritual #Mahler #Might

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.
-- Patti LuPone

#Rocks #Stories #Mahler

To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure.
-- Lorin Maazel

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