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 different question and leads to other kinds of advice and other kind of experts. All you can do is someone planted in my mind very early on, this wonderful truism called, "Fortune favors the prepared mind." Be passionate about being a musician. There is no limit to how hard you must work and how detailed you must be in every facet of what you do, either as a singer, as a musician, or as a person.
Once you go on stage you're essentially creating the world that people want to participate in. The worst thing you can do is go out on stage with the… - Thomas Hampson
Once you go on stage you're essentially creating the world that people want to participate in. The worst thing you can do is go out on stage with the…
- Thomas Hampson
I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. … - Thomas Hampson
I have every iPod that's been made ˘ that's how sick I am. I carry anything and everything I possibly would want to listen to. I have a lot of jazz. …
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 ar… - Thomas Hampson
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 ar…
Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical s… - Thomas Hampson
Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical s…
When I hear music I want to engage in it. Even if I engage in it very quickly and turn it off in my mind. If I'm in an elevator, clearly I don't want… - Thomas Hampson
When I hear music I want to engage in it. Even if I engage in it very quickly and turn it off in my mind. If I'm in an elevator, clearly I don't want…
I think one of the great things behind game theory, or game development, especially in education now, apropos, digital and new media, is finding a be… - Thomas Hampson
I think one of the great things behind game theory, or game development, especially in education now, apropos, digital and new media, is finding a be…
We don't present our voices to the audience, we resonate our souls. - Thomas Hampson
We don't present our voices to the audience, we resonate our souls.
The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the language, th… - Thomas Hampson
The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the language, th…
Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or someth… - Thomas Hampson
Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or someth…
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