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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.
Renee Fleming
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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
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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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I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
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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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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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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
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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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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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I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
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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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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
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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.
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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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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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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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My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
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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 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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