Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
