344 Quotes About Singers



  • Author Mike Figgis
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    When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

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  • Author Renee Fleming
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    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.

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  • Author Renee Fleming
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    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.

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  • Author Renee Fleming
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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.

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  • Author Alma Gluck
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    We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

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