List of Renee Fleming Quotes

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.

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.

A Lot Of Bad Behavior In Singers Is Caused By Nerves.

My Whole Career I Played These Girls Sort Of 18 To 23.

Having To Travel So Much Plays Havoc With Your Personal Life.

I'm Lucky - I Can Do Two Things At Once.

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.

I Listen To Archival And Historic Recordings. I Love Watching Singers. I Learned A Lot From Watching Videos.

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.

I Want To Get Out Of The Major Opera Houses.

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.

My Worry Is That Opera Will Become An Historic Art Form As Opposed To A Living, Breathing Thing.

I'm Not Exactly An Angry Young Person.

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.

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.

For Years, I Had No Time For Exploratory Travel.

For My Own Singing, I Used To Be Attracted By The Baroque, The Flashier The Better, But Now I Prefer A Simpler, Purer Style.

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.

I Have A Certain Image That's More Classic, And I'm Happy To Stay Out Of The 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.

I Have Not Changed With The Accomplishments. I've Remained The Same. If I Had Changed, Great. You Know, But I Haven't.

I Was Always A Very Good Student.

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.

Because Everything About The Voice Interests Me, I Felt It Would Be Fascinating To Learn A Completely Different Style Of Singing.