Renee Fleming Quotes

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• One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a…
• The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is…
• I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.
• When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
• I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.
• Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
• I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.
• No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
• 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…
• I'm not a reactionary.
• I would love to do more private concerts.
• I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
• With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
• 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…
• I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
• A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
• My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last…
• When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and…
• My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
• 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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