“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
"With the coming of spring, I am calm again."
- Gustav Mahler
Inner Peace
"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."
- Gustav Mahler
Persistence
"Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way."
- Gustav Mahler
Determination
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire"
- Gustav Mahler
Wisdom
"Farewell, my friends! I go to glory."
- Gustav Mahler
Service
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity