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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.
Renee Fleming
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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
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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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The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.
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I was always a very good student.
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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'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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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 listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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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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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 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 don't like to sing loud.
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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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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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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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Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.
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My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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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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