"Anyone who draws attention to himself as an……" — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
"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."
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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29 Quotes by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has 29 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to…
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In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as…
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Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake…
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The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else…
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
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I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried…
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The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it…
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All music has to speak in some form or other.
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And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are…
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But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.
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If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another -…
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