Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Renee Fleming
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
Musician
Opera Singer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Renee Fleming
Facts
Instruments
Become
Artists
Used
Tools
Littles
Communication
Reason
Rather
Little
Fact
Detailed
Great
Voice
Voices
Artist
Singers
More quotes by Renee Fleming
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.
Renee Fleming
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
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.
Renee Fleming
I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
Renee Fleming
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.
Renee Fleming
I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
Renee Fleming
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.
Renee Fleming
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
Renee Fleming
I don't like to sing loud.
Renee Fleming
My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.
Renee Fleming
With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
Renee Fleming
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.
Renee Fleming
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.
Renee Fleming
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.
Renee Fleming
I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
Renee Fleming
So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.
Renee Fleming
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
Renee Fleming
I want to get out of the major opera houses.
Renee Fleming
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.
Renee Fleming
Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
Renee Fleming