Citas de Thomas Hampson

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

  Thomas Hampson

  Voice, Soul, Audience

  FaceBook post by Thomas Hampson from Jul 23, 2012

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• Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion.

  Thomas Hampson

  Color, Voice, Singing

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• 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, the cultural tapestry from which it's echoing, if you will. I often say it's the eyes of the poet's and the ears of the composer's. This narration is what fascinates me endlessly.

  Thomas Hampson

  Song, Eye, Language

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• 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 idea that you're going to communicate something you've learned and if you do it really well, they'll approve. If you go out in an approval process, you will be so nervous and so preoccupied you'll never get to the heart of what it is you want to make music with.

  Thomas Hampson

  Heart, People, World

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• 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

  Unique, Perspective, Challenges

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Hampson

  Advice, Mind, Singing

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or something new or the same ol', same ol' in classical music. I'm always in dialogue with other musicians at least orally, if I can't be with them and a lot of dead musicians as well. I've learned a lot from dead people on recordings.

  Thomas Hampson

  People, Musician, Something New

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Me encanta dormir porque necesito el descanso, pero odio perderme algo. Me encantaría poder tomarme una pastilla para no tener que dormir. Así que, a veces, lo que me quita el sueño es que no quiero despedirme de ese día. Y al mismo tiempo, me encanta empezar el día siguiente. Creo que en esencia soy una persona muy inquieta.

  Thomas Hampson

  Hate, Sleep, Night

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• 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 so well, I've done it so often, and you kind of walk out for Tuesday night's performance, or you feel like that, that makes me more nervous then being geared up. A little bit like race horses. In the same way that the horses are always difficult to get into that lineup, the worst time of my life is the 10 or 15 minutes before I go on stage.

  Thomas Hampson

  Horse, Thinking, Tuesday

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this dialogue, we have this very powerful beautiful, eclectic, diary, or narration of being in America, being American, participating in America, becoming more of America and also as an American, the American creative spirit, which is quite interesting. Our composers and poets have spent more time writing and thinking and speaking out of what it means to be a composer or poet as well as to be an American, or a composer or poet In America; both relationships.

  Thomas Hampson

  Beautiful, Art, Powerful

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• 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 to be dealing with that, even if it's Mozart. In fact, especially if it's Mozart. I don't think Mozart belongs in an elevator.

  Thomas Hampson

  Thinking, Mind

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• 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 are accessing that which, what I do, rather than me being preoccupied trying to market something that I do to them.

  Thomas Hampson

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

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• Tengo todos los iPod que se han hecho ˘ así de enfermo soy. Llevo todo lo que me gustaría escuchar. Tengo mucho jazz. Adoro a Ralph Towner, Leo Kottke. Siempre he sido un gran fan de Oscar Peterson. Me he diversificado un poco más en el rock and roll, pero quizá sea porque tengo 50 años y ahora puedo volver a escuchar a Steely Dan sin avergonzarme. Adoro a Grateful Dead. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Crosby, Stills, Nash y Young. Ha sido divertido volver a todo eso. Pero ya no me interesan los Doobie Brothers.

  Thomas Hampson

  Brother, Fun, Grateful

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• I grew up in an extremely musical atmosphere. There was a lot of music and singing around. I never really thought about one not singing, as a person. I've always sung and made music, it was just self-understood.

  Thomas Hampson

  Singing, Atmosphere, Musical

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• 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 better, easier, more intuitive way to learn that takes that away from the drudge and the structured work part and puts it into the reflective, "I'm alive, I'm a human being, I'm not working right now," part. And I think that I would like to see music and arts and humanities become more able to even the color spectrum of the fan of activities.

  Thomas Hampson

  Art, Thinking, Humanity

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