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Renee Fleming Inspirational Quotes (53)

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There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
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A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.
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I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.
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We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.
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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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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 want to get out of the major opera houses.
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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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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 have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.
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Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.
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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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Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.
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When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.
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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
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No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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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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I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
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I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.
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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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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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