Renee Fleming Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by Renee Fleming
Renee Fleming Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
He also gave me some advice that I follow to this day: Sing in the mirror. If it looks funny, it's wrong.
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.
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.
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 in kiddie shows.
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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.
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.
I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.
For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.
I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.
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.
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
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.
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.
We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.
There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.