Able Quote by Renee Fleming Download Open image “Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.” — Renee Fleming ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Crosses Few History Music Opera Opera singer Popular music Singers
The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when… — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it. — Jihae Copy Share Image
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though. — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer. — Barbara Sukowa Copy Share Image
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly… — Simon McBurney 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
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
