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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

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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#first #first thing #love #never #please

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#achievers #being #mean #stopped #wanted

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

— Renee Fleming

#becoming #being #bored #exploring #getting

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#could #dissecting #figure #first #having

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

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. ↗

— John Florio

#hell #horses #men #paradise #purgatory

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow. ↗

— John Fletcher

#drown #perhaps #shall #sorrow #today

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. ↗

— John Fletcher

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