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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

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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.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Topics: Each Each Individual Ears Fields Individual Just Meet Music Person Plow Same Sharpen Trick Up Wake Within You Young Young Person

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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.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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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.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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All music has to speak in some form or other.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Topics: Form Music Other Some Speak

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

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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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.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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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.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Musician

Born: May 28th, 1925

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