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Top 25 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes (2025 Update)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “With creative people, truly new horizons open up.”

1. “With creative people, truly new horizons open up.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don’t talk about it.”

2. “The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don’t talk about it.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

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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.”

4. “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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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.”

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

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.”

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

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they’re still alive today.”

12. “Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they’re still alive today.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.”

14. “But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “The work is the most important thing.”

15. “The work is the most important thing.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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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.”

17. “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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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.”

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

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.”

19. “Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.”

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

20. “It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.”

21. “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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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.”

22. “In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.”

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

23. “All music has to speak in some form or other.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quote: “Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.”

26. “Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.”

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