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Discover the most impactful and inspirational quotes from the Mahler Quotes category. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone. Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Mahler Quotes will inspire and resonate with you.

Simon Rattle

I’d be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

– Simon Rattle

Rufus Wainwright

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

– Rufus Wainwright

Patti LuPone

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

Maureen Forrester

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

Malcolm Arnold

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

– Malcolm Arnold

John Tavener

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

James Horner

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

Gustavo Dudamel

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

Gustavo Dudamel

For me to rehearse with a children’s orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.

– Gustavo Dudamel

Gustav Mahler

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

– Gustav Mahler

Ennio Morricone

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

Antonio Damasio

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

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