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

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

Every opera, because every opera is a unique slice of a particular perspective, historical perspective and psychological perspective if not musical s…

- 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…

- 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…

- Thomas Hampson

We don't present our voices to the audience, we resonate our souls.

- 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…

- 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

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