Quotes by Baritone of the Authors - Page 1

The work is the most important thing.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Important
Important Things
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All reluctance is a lack of confidence.
Todd Duncan / Baritone
Lack Of Confidence
Reluctance
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All music has to speak in some form or other.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Form
Speak
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Your direction is a result of your perception.
Todd Duncan / Baritone
Perception
Results
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With creative people, truly new horizons open up.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Creative
Creative People
New Horizons
People
Open
Horizons
Truly
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Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.
Todd Duncan / Baritone
Buckets
Filling
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But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Music Me Will
Occupy
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It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Breaths
Desirable
People
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
Vaughn Monroe / Baritone
Cute
Smile
Pounds
Weighing
World
Beyond
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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
Vaughn Monroe / Baritone
Education
Children
Educate
Father
Father More Than
Amuse
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Book
Children
Unborn
Unborn Child
Unwritten
Unborn Children
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Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.
Todd Duncan / Baritone
Authenticity
Form
Primitive
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The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.
Todd Duncan / Baritone
Opportunity
Combat
Way
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If you don’t aim for the best prospects, you’re likely to do business with any prospect.
Todd Duncan / Baritone
Aim
Ifs
Prospects
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If you don’t do something differently, you’ll ultimately be where you are now, only later.
Todd Duncan / Baritone
Ifs
Where You Are
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But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Alive
Fields
Hands
Live For Today
Schubert
Plow
Richer
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Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Brahms
Needs
Schubert
Absolutely Everything
Believed
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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 / Baritone
Levels
Social
Standing Out
Above
Concerns
Enforce
Rises
Stands
Tendency
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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Form
Found
Way
Way Through Only
Composers
Texts
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The fact is that if you don't have an effective, efficient plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.
Todd Duncan / Baritone
Facts
Plans
Selling
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Behinds
Disappear
Happens
Interpreter
Unfortunately
Seldom
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
Vaughn Monroe / Baritone
Singers
Study
Develop
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
Voices
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In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Romantic
Atmosphere
Mood
Regard
Romanticism
Schubert
Describe
Main
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
Vaughn Monroe / Baritone
Clicking
Voice Way Doing
Imitations
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
School
Singing
Song
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Care
Letters
Trying
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Facts
Lying
Reason Why
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Curiosity
Musician
Spontaneity
Together
Younger
Experiences
Maintain
Musicians
Pass
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If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.
Vaughn Monroe / Baritone
Choices
Numbers
Pleasure
Song
Vocal
Time Great Song
Every Time
Great Deal
Pick
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Composition
Firsts
Form
Lines
Melody
Overall
Perhaps
Poem
Text
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Conditions
Schubert
Social Conditions
Work Good Believe
Aid
Reminded
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Alive
Artist
Hands
Mirrors
Admittedly
Artists
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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 / Baritone
Ears
Fields
Each Individual
Trick
Plow
Sharpen
Wake
Young Person
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Ears
Fields
Listening
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Behalf
Mind
Thinking
Way
Life Thinking Way
Causing
His Way
Minds
Speaking
Toward
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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 / Baritone
Dough
Normal
Orchestra
Routine
Openings
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Artist
Play
Thinking
Life Important My Life
Element
Life My Life Important
Important Role
In Fact
Instrument
Occupied
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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 / Baritone
Age
Chance
Abandon
Careful
Collapse
Good Chance
Work Good Age
Drift
Particularly
Reach
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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 / Baritone
America
Attention
Draws
Imitation
Individual
Suspicion
Acquired
Himself
Tendency
Viewed
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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 / Baritone
Opportunity
Clusters
Mind
Song
Thinking
Brief
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...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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Creative
Genius
Thinking
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Concerts
Creative Genius
Particular
Drawn
Gradually
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Dolls
Enormous
Facial
Opera
Expressions
Presence
Reflected
Row
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe / Baritone
Dance
Appeals
Cake
Eating
Hair
Let Down
People
Pep
Please
Steak
Music Your People
Broadcast
Larger
Slower
Softer
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Baritone
Doubt
Preparation
Reflection
Return
Subconscious
Aside
Doubts
Forced
Laid
Performance
New Level
Onto
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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 / Baritone
Doors
Dying
House
Lasting
Nothing New
Opera
Orchestra
Thrown
Unity
Time Music New
Houses
Performed
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It's easy to mindlessly ascend a corporate ladder without considering the impact each wrung will have on your potential. It's also easier to become a company lifer in the name of comfort than to seek out your strengths and listen to the longings of your heart. But the easier paths will never lead you to a dream fulfilled.
Todd Duncan / Baritone
Dream
Easy
Path
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