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Renee Fleming is a seasoned consultant, born on February 14, 1959. She has accumulated extensive experience in her career, providing professional consulting services to various industries.

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“This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.”

Character Lives Qualities Striking Put Together

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.”

Able Stage Havens Creatures Worldly Transfers

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“A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.”

Behavior Singers Nerves Bad Behavior

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“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.”

People Ifs Philosophy Lasts Behinds Stage Scene Unkind Behind The Scenes

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“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.”

Different Sound Color Breaths Range

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“My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.”

Whole Girl Careers

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“I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.”

Joy Humanity My Own Imagine Calling Singing Satisfying Cathartic

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

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

Artist Risk Intellectual Inspired Curiosity Musical Intellectual Curiosity

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“Well, any time Im preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, its 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.”

Ifs Way Believe Wells Kind Feelings Today I Believe Voice Support Demand Performances Constant Athlete Muscles Preparing Vocal Rehearsal Cords Vocal Cords Warming Up

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“There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.”

Thinking Performances Setting Settings Performing Phrases Adjustment

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

Art Form Worry Breathing Opera Historic

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“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.”

Mean Ideals Singers Rejects Opera Opera Singers

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“I want to get out of the major opera houses.”

Want House Majors Opera Opera House

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“I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.”

I Can Two Can Do Lucky Two Things

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“I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.”

People Ifs Passion Hurt Worry Musical Legacy It Hurts Eclectic

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“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.”

Heart Important Soul Whole Body Sound Guts Heart And Soul Emanate

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Facts Turns Voice Natural Talent Natural Talent Pampered

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Ifs Feels Years Firsts Has Beens Beautiful Certain House Language Sound Air Months Lessons

Author:Renee Fleming

“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.”

World Children Important Soul Helping School Creativity Imagine Dose Curriculum Fostering School Curriculum

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Facts Perfect Fit Let Me Noble Rejected Perfect Fit

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Years Said Singing Seven

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Years Ends Problem Careers Youth Ten Singers Enthusiasm Get Away

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Ifs Should Trying Wells Important My Own Rooms Practice Opposites Realization Alternatives Phrases Routes

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Jobs Faces Process Students Improvement Knees Suggestions Confusing Frustrating Open Minded Jerk Defensiveness

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Kind Different Body Together Sound Voice Teaching Training Technique Coaching Consistent Different Kinds

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.”

Looks Seeing Mouths Notes Wide Breathe Singers High Notes

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.”

Notes Interpretation

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“It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.”

Want Giving Reason Speak Responsibility Audience

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.”

Ifs Way Long Moving Imagine Long Time Beats Notes Singers Spinning

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.”

I Can Soul My Own Ability Seeing Mines Ambition Willingness Vaults

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“The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.”

Littles Reason Facts Used Artist Voice Communication Goes On Tools Instruments Singers Great Art Great Artist

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Heart Individual Audience Pieces Style Perfection Window Surface Singers Flawless Idiosyncrasies Individual Style

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.”

Author: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.”

Way Years Fall Passion Months Falling In Love Conviction Singers Opera Sixteen Great Passion Very Romantic Opera Singers Sixteen Year Olds

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“Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.”

Giving Persons Young Names Speak Voice Emotion Unique Mysterious Fragile

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.”

Humans Made Self Voice Unique Factors Human Voice

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“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.”

Years Stills Remember Father Wonderful Seeing New York Listening Performances Productions Choir Pageant Upstate New York

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“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.”

Thinking Brain Trouble Design Evolution Ancestor

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“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.”

Walks Habit Heavy Magazines Planes Thrown Over It Mail Airplane Junk Bundles Junk Mail

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“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.”

Way Firsts Littles Made Character Together Bits Quality Our Lives Little Bit Singers Amber Necklaces

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“I think singing it when its done well is extremely natural. It feels great.”

Thinking Feels Wells Done Natural Singing

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“When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.”

Humans Sound Human Beings Loud Amplification

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

Thinking Humans Difficult Natural Human Beings Singing Natural Things

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

Has Beens Able Crosses Singers Opera Popular Music Opera Singers

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

Want Young Voice Heavy Hairstyles

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“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.”

Mean Stills Progress Work In Progress

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

Process Becoming Nervous Bored Exploring

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“I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.”

Certain Classic Fray

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“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.”

Mind Wells Difficult Stage Well Being Peace Of Mind Difficult Times Fright Livelihood Stage Fright

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“I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.”

Ifs Knows Havens Changed Accomplishment

Author:Renee Fleming

About the Author

Born: February 14, 1959
Known for: Consultant
Quotes: 79

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