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The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Book by Renee Fleming · 19 quotes · Singers, Voice, Facts

This book delves into the personal experiences and insights of singers, offering readers a unique perspective on the challenges and triumphs of a career in music.

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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

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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

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“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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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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.”

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“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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“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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“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.”

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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.”

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“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

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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.”

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“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

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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

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“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

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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

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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

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