#cal

At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#any #anything #big #big mistake #calculated

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#adjustment #i #making #never #performance

Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#athletes #believe #constant #cords #demands

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#classical #emit #force #much #out

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.' ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#cannot #consumed #continue #game #government

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care. ↗

— Michael Korda

#already #bad #bad news #calmly #care

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids. ↗

— Tyler Florence

#enjoyed #foods #grandmother #i #i think

Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#calls #growing #growing up #knew #me

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#enormously #find #i #i think #musically

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive! ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #audiences #automatically #compliment #greatest