Top 55 Quotes by Renee Fleming

I would love to do more private concerts.

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

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.

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

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

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.

I don't like to sing loud.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

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

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