"Toward the end of his life, one can……" — 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, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself."
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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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Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to…
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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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