Susanna Phillips quotes:

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.

It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece.

When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

The rehearsal process is the most important thing to me, so working with colleagues who are effusive, thoughtful, young and vivacious is really inspiring as a musician.