Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes & Sayings
26 most famous Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a German musician who passed away on 18 May, 2012.
“With creative people, truly new horizons open up.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.”
“The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.”
“Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.”
“What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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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