Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
Gustav MahlerRead
It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.
Interpretation
Music provides clarity and resolution, eliminating the need for answers.
In this quote, Gustav Mahler expresses how the act of creating music brings him a profound sense of understanding and peace. He suggests that while immersed in the creative process, life’s questions fade away and the need for answers ceases, highlighting the transformative and liberating power of music in his life.
In practice
During a speech at a music festival, I might say, 'As Mahler once said, while making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.'
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
The 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.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea - and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.
The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.
Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.
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