Music was language in our house. It was air. . . . . I feel certain that if … - Renee Fleming

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

Renee Fleming

Music was language in our house. It was air. . . . . I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.

Air, Beautiful, Certain, Years

Same Author Quotes

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

Singing, Enjoy, Exposed, Elegant

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.

Able, Stage, Transfers, Creature, Worldly

I don't like to sing loud.

Like, Loud, Sing

I would love to do more private concerts.

Concerts, Love, Private

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

Heavy, Nothing, Voice, Want, Young

Similar Quotes

Golda Meir

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Bear, Children, Family, Liberation, Likely, Mothers Day

Francis Ford Coppola

The essence of cinema is editing.

Cinema, Editing, Essence

John Oliver

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

Ask, Comedian, Jokes, Laughing, Sound, Sounds

William Carlos Williams

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

Imagination, Instruct, Mind, Remorse, Use

Stephen Johnson Field

Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?

Down, Foundation, Government, Political, Provisions, Set