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Renee Fleming Quotes

American - Musician | February 14, 1957 -

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

Performance Think Never Up Where

I'm rarely singing in English.

Singing English Rarely

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 Legacy American Worry Follow

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.

Say Opera Singer Being Ideal Means

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

Learning Me Process Nervous Bored

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

Great Interesting Want Anything

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

Want Opera Out Get Houses Major

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.

House Want Opera Leave Prime Sing

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.

Music Simple Research Doing Hours

I was always a very good student.

Good Student Always Good Student

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.

Work Learning Time Progress Never

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

Music America Jazz Become More Our

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