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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
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Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
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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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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.
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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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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 have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
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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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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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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 don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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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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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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I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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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'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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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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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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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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