Renee Fleming Quotes

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Renee Fleming

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 14, 1957

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

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I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

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No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

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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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I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

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My parents were both high-school music teachers.

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It is always fragile, being a parent.

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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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For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

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Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

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My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

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I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

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I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

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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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For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

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I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

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I don't like to sing loud.

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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.

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I'm not a reactionary.

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I would love to do more private concerts.

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