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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
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Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
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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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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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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
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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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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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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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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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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 enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.
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Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.
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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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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'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
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I don't like to sing loud.
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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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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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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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