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 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

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

- 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

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

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