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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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I was always a very good student.
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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 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 don't like to sing loud.
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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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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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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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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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I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.
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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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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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The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.
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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.
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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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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 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 listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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