Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Quotes
I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I still keep my accent.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.
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The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.
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Andy Warhol was a good friend of mine. We used to go to the Studio 54 nightclub together with the likes of Liza Minnelli, and we'd dance through the night.
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My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.
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We have to be cognizant of the fact that they've had foreign fighters coming to volunteer for them, foreign money, foreign weapons, so we have to make this the top priority.
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I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.
