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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.
Renee Fleming
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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
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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 want to get out of the major opera houses.
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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
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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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An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.
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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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I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.
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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 think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.
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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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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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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 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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