Quote

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

Renee Fleming

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Renee Fleming
Force
Much
Emit
Classical
Project
Projects
Air
Singing

More quotes by Renee Fleming

Image
A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
Renee Fleming
Image
Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
Renee Fleming
Image
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.
Renee Fleming
Image
I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
Renee Fleming
Image
Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.
Renee Fleming
Image
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
Renee Fleming
Image
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.
Renee Fleming
Image
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.
Renee Fleming
Image
I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
Renee Fleming
Image
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.
Renee Fleming
Image
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.
Renee Fleming
Image
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.
Renee Fleming
Image
I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
Renee Fleming
Image
My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
Renee Fleming
Image
I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
Renee Fleming
Image
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.
Renee Fleming
Image
I want to get out of the major opera houses.
Renee Fleming
Image
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.
Renee Fleming
Image
I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
Renee Fleming
Image
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.
Renee Fleming