Mahler Quotes

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all. Jessye Norman
Life Friendship Reading Correspondence Thread Life Lessons Mahler Through Support Between Most Particularly Genuine Richard Us Communications Lessons Enjoyed Competitiveness
I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. Rufus Wainwright
Singing Mahler Like Sing Maybe
Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy. Ennio Morricone
Work Music Long Before Own Bach Some Mahler Well Existed Autonomy Movies Really Film
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. Antonio Damasio
You Bach Those Composers Mahler Write Because Doing Beethoven Listen Stop Cannot Require Chopin
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. Gustavo Dudamel
Love Time Focus Reading Few Books Philosophy Mahler Read Subjects Jump Same Same Time Different Cannot Literature Then Pages Different Subjects Biographies
Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door. Pete Hamill
Buy You Down Aisle Out Record Record Stores Mahler Go Same Going Door Stores Holiday Billie Holiday
I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony. Simon Rattle
Symphony Latest More Mahler Likely Tarantino Than Listen Movie Much Watch
I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor. Simon Rattle
Me First Become Symphony Mahler Inspired Heard Conductor Aged Liverpool Second
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much. Patti LuPone
Love Music Favorite Tell Composers Classic Classic Rock More Mahler Like Contemporary Contemporary Music Because Rock Wagner Very Listen Story Much
My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French. James Horner
Music People Big Composers Some Russian Mahler Never Over French Mostly Wagner Were Tastes Fan Place English Early Medieval
I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence. Jeffrey Tate
Time Language Type Musical Hurry Mahler Develop Hysteria Like Sincerity Ideas His Huge Conductor Romantic Which Spans Prefer Fiery Fast
In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path. John Tavener
Love Path Meditation Late Though See Mahler Through Came Wagner His Beethoven Left Them Then Should Element Downward
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. Maureen Forrester
Music Great Spiritual Wonderful Great Deal Gone Once Sung One Thing Having Mahler Remembered Perhaps Deal Am Very Conductors The One Thing Might Many Thing Phenomenal
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