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.

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

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

All music has to speak in some form or other.

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

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.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.