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I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

Renee Fleming

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Renee Fleming
Singing
Joy
Humanity
Imagine
Beauty
Cathartic
History
Combined
Cannot
Satisfying
Every
Calling

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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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So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.
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I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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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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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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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 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 listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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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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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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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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I was always a very good student.
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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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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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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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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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