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

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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…

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

All music has to speak in some form or other.

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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 t…

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau