Renee Fleming Quotes

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Renee Fleming

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 14, 1957

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

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For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

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I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

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I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

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With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

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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 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.

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I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

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When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

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I think touring is hard.

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Opera is really fun.

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Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.

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Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

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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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I'm not exactly an angry young person.

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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'm rarely singing in English.

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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.

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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.

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