Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: May 28, 1925 - May 18, 2012

Topics

OpportunityMindThinkYouLoseWay

Copper is a superb cooking metal, conducting heat so evenly it has unparalleled control, especially at low temperatures.

Andrew Zimmern

CookingControlHeatLowMetal

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

Anna Netrebko

YourselfHappyMePushYouNew

My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'

Angela Kinsey

WorkDaughterDayMomSisterLunch

Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

Michael Gambon

MeActionFeelingTroubleBoyRoom

Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.

John Rampton

PositiveGreatPurposeResultsWill

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

Amber Tamblyn

AdviceCareerChoiceActingYour

Ballet opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But also every woman.

Mary Helen Bowers

WomanYourselfYouBodyImportant

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

Mary MacLane

WorldLiteratureKnowSayWhyHard

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Clifton Fadiman

ManSchoolHigh SchoolEndBecome

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Bob Feller

BaseballPeopleThinkAnythingOwe

And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation.

Richard M. Daley

TimePeopleThinkGenerationBetter

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

Richard Steele

CareMindsActOwnRulePursuit

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