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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.
Renee Fleming
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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
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I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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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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The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.
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One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.
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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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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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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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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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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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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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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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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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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 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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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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The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.
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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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