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There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

Renee Fleming

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
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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 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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I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.
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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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I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
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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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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.
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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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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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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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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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Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.
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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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A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.
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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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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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We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.
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I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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