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• One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather,…
• Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every…
• In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
• Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up,…
• The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him…
• The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
• I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain…
• The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also…
• All music has to speak in some form or other.
• And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to…
• Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and…
• But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

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