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Everybody's a work in progres...

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.

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I've lived in New York all my...

I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it.

Renee Fleming 83 quotes

Among the important realizati...

Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.

Renee Fleming 83 quotes

Someone once said that there ...

Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.

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Fostering creativity in child...

Fostering creativity in children is as important as any other part of the school curriculum because it feeds the soul. A daily dose of creativity helps children imagine a better world and then create it.

Renee Fleming 83 quotes

While it's a fact that a voic...

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.

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The student's job is to stay ...

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

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In a way, being an opera sing...

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.

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When I sing, the sound is a t...

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 83 quotes

Your brain has a music room, ...

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. So, that suggests to me that we and our ancestors have had music as a central part of our experience for eons. And we're just beginning to understand how that might be. I think that's fascinating.

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Music was language in our hou...

Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.

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You finally have to learn to ...

You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice and body and technique for a sound that is consistent and solid.

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Perfection often creates such...

Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.

Renee Fleming 83 quotes

I have a noble history of bei...

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.

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Singers can also get away wit...

Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.

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Having to travel so much plays...

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

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I've always been inspired by a...

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

Renee Fleming 83 quotes

Everybody's a work in progress...

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 83 quotes

Being steeped in the process o...

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

Renee Fleming 83 quotes

Every singer eventually gets a...

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

Renee Fleming 83 quotes

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