All music has to speak in some form or other.
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.
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But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote

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.
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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 Quote

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote

It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
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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.
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
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Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
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What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
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Which is why, 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.
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With creative people, truly new horizons open up.
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote