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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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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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Until I'm actually stood on the set doing the job, I always keep my options open.
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There's this Frank Wildhorn tune 'Sarah' - it's not a widely known tune, but it's my favorite song to sing.
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I'm obsessed with muffins.
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He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.
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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.
