Renee Fleming Quotes
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One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.
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I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.
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Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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I was always a very good student.
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Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits. So, that suggests to me that we and our ancestors have had music as a central part of our experience for eons. And we're just beginning to understand how that might be. I think that's fascinating.
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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.
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Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.
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My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
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I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
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We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.
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So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.
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I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.
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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.
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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
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While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.
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I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.
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I don't like to sing loud.
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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.
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Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.
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In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.
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My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.
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I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
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