What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. — 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
