Gustav Mahler World Quotations

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

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

In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.

I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish