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-DieskauAnyone 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-DieskauBrahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau