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Baritone Inspirational Quotes (32)

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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe
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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
Vaughn Monroe
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The work is the most important thing.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.
Todd Duncan
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It's easy to mindlessly ascend a corporate ladder without considering the impact each wrung will have on your potential. It's also easier to become a company lifer in the name of comfort than to seek out your strengths and listen to the longings of your heart. But the easier paths will never lead you to a dream fulfilled.
Todd Duncan
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...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe it can even be the poem's overall form.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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The fact is that if you don't have an effective, efficient plan for selling, any business you get is accidental.
Todd Duncan
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If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.
Vaughn Monroe
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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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 to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.
Todd Duncan
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One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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