Renee Fleming Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.”

“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.”

“I don't like to sing loud.”

“Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.”

“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 don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.”

“I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.”

“I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.”

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

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