I think nervousness - a heightened sense of nerves and attention is a very healthy thing for a performer. It is an artificial environment that you are going into whether it's concert or recital, or stage. When I know something… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
When I hear music I want to engage in it. Even if I engage in it very quickly and turn it off in my… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I grew up in an extremely musical atmosphere. There was a lot of music and singing around. I never really thought about one not… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical style, and so forth, they all present different challenges. Some can be musically very challenging, some can be psychologically more challenging. There is always something that requires a pretty specific amount of energy and attention. — Thomas Hampson Copy Share
I love to sleep because I need the rest, but I hate to miss something. I would love to be able to take a pill that I wouldn't have to sleep. So, sometimes what keeps me up at night is just that I don't want to say good-bye to that day. And at the same time, I love to start… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share
You would be surprised how many people that are very passionate about classical music are deeply involved in Hip Hop. You would think Jazz would be the natural associative, but it's extraordinary what kind of crossed-genre associations we are finding in digital media. And even as I'm talking about it, I find myself speaking very much more about how people… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share
We don't present our voices to the audience, we resonate our souls. — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I think one of the great things behind game theory, or game development, especially in education now, apropos, digital and new media, is finding… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I think nervousness - a heightened sense of nerves and attention is a very healthy thing for a performer. It is an artificial environment… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this dialogue, we… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
My only advice as an experience older singer is about singing, it isn't about music. To have a career in music is a completely… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
