Quote by Janet Baker

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

— Tom Wopat

The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere,…

— Twyla Tharp

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know,…

— Jessye Norman

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

— Artur Schnabel

In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance…

— Danielle de Niese

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are…

— George Gershwin

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

— Ibn Warraq

“In Schubert, for instance, say, in Wiegenleid D867 or Der Wanderer and den Mond D870 one finds perhaps the ultimate listening experience, the composer…

— Andrew Ashdown

“Be composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,…

— Walt Whitman