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Gustav Mahler

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

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Gustav Mahler suggests that music expresses emotions or ideas that cannot be fully captured by spoken language. He believes composers use music because words alone are insufficient to convey the depth of their message.

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