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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.

Renee Fleming

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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
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Opera Singer
Indiana
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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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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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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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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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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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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 listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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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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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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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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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 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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Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.
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When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.
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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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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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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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