Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“pulled out my Valery Gergiev trump card and said I would have to call him about getting another hotel. There are many… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“classical musicians are now as subject to marketing principles as any other performers.” — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“There are ominous signs about the future of classical music. The record companies are facing threats from piracy and unauthorized downloading. It’s… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
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,… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“Today, “crossover” has become the golden word of the age. Crossover is based, in fact, on the model used for the development of pop… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits.… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“pulled out my Valery Gergiev trump card and said I would have to call him about getting another hotel. There are many ways in… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
