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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
Pennsylvania
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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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Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
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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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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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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 don't like to sing loud.
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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'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
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I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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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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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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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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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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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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Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.
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I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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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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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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