Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The work is the most important thing.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up,…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point,…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others,…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

All music has to speak in some form or other.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand,…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up,…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau