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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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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
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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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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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I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
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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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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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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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Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.
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I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
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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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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 don't like to sing loud.
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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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I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
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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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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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