I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many… — 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
