Renee Fleming Quotes
Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
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People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.
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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
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If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
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What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
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Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you're going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you've done something and there's a slight difference in your breathing.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
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Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.
