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“I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Singing #Enjoy #Exposed
“I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Able #Stage #Transfers
“When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Sound #Amplification #Loud
“A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Nerves #Singers #Behavior
“I would love to do more private concerts.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Concerts
“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 people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Philosophy #People #Behind The Scenes
“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

#America #Jazz #Niche
“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

#Color #Sound #Different
“My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Girl #Careers
“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

#Style #Singing #Used
“For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Years
“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

#Mean #Progress #Work In Progress
“I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Thinking #Singing #Done
“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 often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Character #Quality #Together
“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 very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Airplane #Magazines #Mail
“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

#House #Opera #Want
“For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.”
-- Renee Fleming
“Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Christmas #Singers #Discs
“Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Bored #Becoming #Nervous
“I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Classic #Certain #Fray
“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

#Mind #Difficult Times #Stage
“I was always a very good student.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Students #Very Good
“At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Mistake #Careers #People
“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

#Simple #Emotional #Grandfather
“Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Voice #Style #Singing
“Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Voice #Technique #Norm
“I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Opening Up #Way #Jazz
“I'm not a reactionary.”
-- Renee Fleming
“With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.”
-- Renee Fleming

#Air #Singing #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 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

#Art #Thinking #Media

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