Mahler Quotes

Mahler Quote of the day

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

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

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

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.

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.

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

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

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.