Lotte Lehmann Quotes

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.Lotte Lehmann