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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.
Renee Fleming
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Renee Fleming
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 14
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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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A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
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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 haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
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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'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
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Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.
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