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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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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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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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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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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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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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I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
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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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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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My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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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 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.
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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 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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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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I was always a very good student.
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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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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 listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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