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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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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Renee Fleming
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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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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.
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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'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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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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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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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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I don't like to sing loud.
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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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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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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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I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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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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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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