The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don’t talk about it. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
It’s not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
If you only do little clusters – three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
But, on the other hand, if schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that schubert ever wrote. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The future? like unwritten books and unborn children, you don’t talk about it. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
You can’t do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau