In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Gustav MahlerThe impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Gustav MahlerA true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
Gustav MahlerWe all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.
Gustav Mahler