Famous Quotes

"I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music."

Renee Fleming on Music

More quotes about Music

• "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

  Bob Marley on Music

• "If music be the food of love, play on."

  William Shakespeare on Music

• "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

  Plato on Music

• "Without music, life would be a mistake."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Music

• "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."

  Ray Charles on Music

More quotes by Renee Fleming

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

• "My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education."

• "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."

• "Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored."

• "Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights."