I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
Gustav Mahler

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
Gustav Mahler

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
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

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
Gustav Mahler

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
Gustav Mahler

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Gustav Mahler

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Gustav Mahler