121 Quotes by Renee Fleming

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

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.

Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's 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.

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

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

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.