If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav MahlerIn the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Gustav MahlerThe 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