With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

The work is the most important thing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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