What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau More Quotes by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau More Quotes From Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau All music has to speak in some form or other. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau form speak The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau unborn-child book children Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau fields ears listening With creative people, truly new horizons open up. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau new-horizons creative people It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau breaths desirable people I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau musician curiosity together When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau preparation reflection doubt But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau atmosphere mood romantic Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau form found way In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau artist play thinking 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. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau abandon chance age One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau care letters trying 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. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau mind way thinking The work is the most important thing. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau important-things important If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau opportunity song thinking But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau live-for-today alive hands Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing song school The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau reason-why lying facts ...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau genius creative thinking
