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I want to get out of the major opera houses.

Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

Renee Fleming

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

Renee Fleming

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

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

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

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

Opera is really fun.

Renee Fleming

I don't like to sing loud.

Renee Fleming

I was always a very good student.

Renee Fleming

I'm not a reactionary.

Renee Fleming

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

Renee Fleming

I think singing is one of the most natural things that human beings do, but it's difficult.

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

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

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

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

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

Renee Fleming

Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.

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

It is always fragile, being a parent.

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

I would love to do more private concerts.

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

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

Renee Fleming

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.

Renee Fleming

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 in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

Renee Fleming

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Renee Fleming

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Renee Fleming

I think singing it when it's done well is extremely natural. It feels great.

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

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Renee Fleming

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

Renee Fleming

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

Renee Fleming

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

Renee Fleming

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

Renee Fleming

I'm rarely singing in English.

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