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All Quotes by author - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
" 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. "
Own
Mirror
Hand
" All music has to speak in some form or other. "
Speak
Form
Music
" 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. "
Doors
Dying
Music
" 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. "
Doing
America
Attention
" Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. "
Everything
Need
Publish
" But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow. "
Find
Alive
Today
" But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music. "
Me
Will
Always
" 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. "
Musicians
Curiosity
Together
" 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. "
Lose
Mind
Opportunity
" 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. "
My Life
Think
Artist
" In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. "
You
Main
Mood
" It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. "
Desirable
People
Music
" 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. "
Routine
Normal
Orchestra
" Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. "
Found
Many
Only
" 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. "
Age
Work
You
" 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. "
I Believe
Good
Believe
" 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. "
Line
Text
Single
" The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. "
Books
You
Talk
" 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. "
Thinking
Minds
End
" Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. "
Happens
You
Disappear
" What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. "
Level
Above
Me
" 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. "
Reflection
Start
Moment
" 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. "
Genius
Audience
Creative
" With creative people, truly new horizons open up. "
New
Open
People
" 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. "
Same
You
Young
" You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things. "
Faith
Space
Stage
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