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I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Renee Fleming
Lucky
Two
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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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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 always a very good student.
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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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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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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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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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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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I don't like to sing loud.
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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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I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
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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.
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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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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
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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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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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There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
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