Top 26 Quotes by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

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.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.