Top 100 Gustav Quotes
#2. (during which Gustav was so overwhelmed by emotion that he actually gave Frederic a pat on the back),
Christopher Healy
#3. If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.
Eric Weiner
#4. How can I wear a leather suit that does not carry the stains of wine and blood?" asks CT, and Gustav does not answer; of course it was rhetorical
Alissa Nutting
#5. Music is so important in a human life. It finds a space inside us that nothing else touches.' Gustav
Rose Tremain
#6. The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.
Eric Weiner
#7. If Uncle Monty had known known what bad luck was soon to come, he wouldn't have wasted a moment thinking about Gustav. I wish - and I'm sure you wish as well - we could go back in time and warn him, but we can't, and that's that.
Lemony Snicket
#8. Pleasure principle, a psychoanalytical term coined by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a predecessor of Sigmund Freud
Anonymous
#9. Ha! Good luck, lady!" Gustav laughed and tapped his thick index finger against his temple. "No one knows what goes on inside this head. Not even me.
Christopher Healy
#10. I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."
Peter Webber
#11. 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
#12. I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years ... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.
Gustav Nossal
#13. Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.
Gustav Hasford
#14. Music-making as a means of getting money is hell
Gustav Holst
#15. It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
Gustav Mahler
#16. A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
Gustav Stresemann
#17. I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.
Gustav Ejstes
#18. Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
Gustav Mahler
#19. We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we let them earn.
Gustav Krupp
#20. Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.
Gustav Mahler
#21. Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
Gustav Klimt
#22. If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
#23. I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.
Gustav Krupp
#24. If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.
Gustav Mahler
#25. There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.
Gustav Klimt
#27. We don't stop, not even when we reach the finish line. It's a journey for life, Neve.
Sarra Manning
#28. I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.
Gustav Mahler
#29. I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then ... So then if you aren't, you think, "Have I done something wrong?"
Gustav Ejstes
#30. You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!
Gustav Landauer
#32. One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.
Gustav Holst
#33. The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at not being able to remain children forever.
Keith Donohue
#34. I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer - so it always becomes a different song - but I have ideas.
Gustav Ejstes
#35. I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.
Gustav Ejstes
#36. I've learned what 'classical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
Gustav Holst
#37. Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being ... conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling.
Gustav Heinrich Ralph Von Koenigswald
#38. Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.
Gustav Mahler
#39. No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.
Gustav Stresemann
#40. When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.
Gustav Stickley
#42. I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
Gustav Mahler
#43. I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler
#45. Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.
Gustav Holst
#46. After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.
Gustav Klimt
#47. Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
Gustav Stresemann
#48. All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.
Gustav Ejstes
#50. I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a 'waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.
Gustav Meyrink
#51. The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
Gustav Stresemann
#52. The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann
#54. It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Gustav Mahler
#55. The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
Gustav Stresemann
#56. Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
Gustav Mahler
#57. I beg of you ... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Gustav Mahler
#58. Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
Gustav Heinemann
#59. But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.
Gustav Stresemann
#60. I'm inspired to keep on when people like what I do.
Gustav Ejstes
#61. All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
Gustav Mahler
#62. I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.
Gustav Stresemann
#63. There can be no understanding where there is mutual rejection.
Gustav Niebuhr
#64. What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
Gustav Mahler
#65. Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.
Gustav Ejstes
#66. Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler
#67. During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.
Gustav Stresemann
#68. First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
Gustav Stickley
#69. Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for themselves, from acquiring land; nothing - if only they have a will and begin.
Gustav Landauer
#70. The Heavenly Spheres make music for us,
The Holy Twelve dance with us,
All things join in the dance!
Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.
Gustav Holst
#71. The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.
Gustav Holst
#72. I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.
Gustav Krupp
#73. The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
Carl Gustav Hempel
#74. Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?
Gustav Meyrink
#75. I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
Gustav Mahler
#77. The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.
Gustav Landauer
#78. History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
Gustav Stresemann
#79. We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.
Gustav Krupp
#80. It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Gustav Mahler
#81. There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
Gustav Stickley
#82. Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Gustav Mahler
#83. Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are.
Gustav Ejstes
#84. 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.
Gustav Mahler
#85. A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal, that stretched each minute to an excruciating eternity.
Gustav Meyrink
#86. That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being ... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.
Gustav Mahler
#87. The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.
Gustav Ejstes
#88. We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.
Gustav Heinemann
#89. Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.
Gustav Krupp
#90. To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
Gustav Krupp
#92. When I did the vocals, I always became so angry and pissed off ...
Gustav Ejstes
#93. Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.
Gustav Krupp
#95. Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
Gustav Klimt
#97. When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music ...
Gustav Ejstes
#98. Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
Gustav Heinemann
#99. It comes to me every day of my life that a home spirit is being awakened amongst us, that as a nation we are beginning to realize how important it is to have homes of our own, homes that we like, that we have been instrumental in building, that we will want to have belong to our children.
Gustav Stickley
#100. A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
Gustav Mahler
