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.

- Renee Fleming

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.

- Renee Fleming

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to main…

- Renee Fleming

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used thei…

- Renee Fleming

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

- Renee Fleming

Fostering creativity in children is as important as any other part of the school curriculum because it feeds the soul. A daily dose of creativity hel…

- Renee Fleming

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

- Renee Fleming

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that ma…

- Renee Fleming

I was always a very good student.

- Renee Fleming