Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of … - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Anyone 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.

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Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

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And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

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All music has to speak in some form or other.

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Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

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With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

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