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Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

Renee Fleming

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Renee Fleming
Everybody
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I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
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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 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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I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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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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I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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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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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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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
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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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I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.
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I don't like to sing loud.
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At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.
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