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No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
— Renee Fleming
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.
— Renee Fleming
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
— Renee Fleming
He also gave me some advice that I follow to this day: Sing in the mirror. If it looks funny, it's wrong.
— Renee Fleming
I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.
— Renee Fleming
I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.
— Renee Fleming
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
— Renee Fleming
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 you make a sound.
— Renee Fleming
I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.
— Renee Fleming
I would love to do more private concerts.
— Renee Fleming
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
— Renee Fleming
In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.
— Renee Fleming
For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.
— Renee Fleming
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.
— Renee Fleming
For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
— Renee Fleming
My parents were both high-school music teachers.
— Renee Fleming
I think touring is hard.
— Renee Fleming
I was always a very good student.
— Renee Fleming
I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
— Renee Fleming
For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.
— Renee Fleming
I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
— Renee Fleming
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.
— Renee Fleming
I want to get out of the major opera houses.
— Renee Fleming
Opera is really fun.
— Renee Fleming
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
— Renee Fleming
I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
— Renee Fleming
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
— Renee Fleming
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
I'm rarely singing in English.
— Renee Fleming
A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.
— Renee Fleming
My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
— Renee Fleming
I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.
— Renee Fleming
Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.
— Renee Fleming
I'm not a reactionary.
— Renee Fleming
I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.
— Renee Fleming
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
— Renee Fleming
I'm not exactly an angry young person.
— Renee Fleming
With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
— Renee Fleming
Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.
— Renee Fleming
It is always fragile, being a parent.
— Renee Fleming
I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.
— Renee Fleming
I don't like to sing loud.
— Renee Fleming
I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.
— Renee Fleming
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.
— Renee Fleming
This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.
— Renee Fleming
Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.
— Renee Fleming
