"She is almost too good to be true – a vital artist, a beautiful woman, a regal presence."
– The Washington Post

"Put simply: if the human voice has the power to move you, you
  will be touched by Denyce Graves."
          – Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"One of the singers most likely to be an operatic superstar of the 21st century."
          – USA Today

"Her voice, low and thick, painfully dragging out each word, filled the song with all the agony of that September week. But then something extraordinary happened. At the last verse her voice became lighter, purer. Climbing the register, she sustained notes for so long that the lyrics – with the vivid description of America's landscape – lost their meaning. They became pure sound: the sound of hope, the sound of possibility, the sound of something that words alone could not convey."
           – Los Angeles Magazine on Denyce Graves' performance at the National Prayer Service in the
               Washington National Cathedral on September 14, 2001

"... a remarkable mezzo, with the most alluring voice I've heard this season. Denyce Graves [is] a singer whose tones run from the depths to the peaks – unforced, unpushed – in tones that are beautiful and moving, and one who communicates
the sense of the words that she sings."
          – The Financial Times of London

"... terrific ... deeply musical throughout the evening, elegant and idiomatic in a wide range of material, singing with freedom and passion in a voice that seems to get only richer and more lustrous."
          – The Washington Post