"Particularly at around the age of 70 you……" — 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, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift."
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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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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from…
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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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More Abandon Quotes
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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