Placido Domingo Quotes

#1. Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.

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#2. I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

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#3. The public is a part of my real life.

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#4. I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.

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#5. The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

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#6. The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

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#7. The high note is not the only thing.

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#8. I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

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#9. I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

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#10. Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

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#11. I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

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#12. I feel at home in an orchestral score.

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#13. When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

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#14. Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

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#15. I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

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#16. This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

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#17. But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

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#18. I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

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#19. The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.

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#20. When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

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#21. Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

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#22. If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

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#23. To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.

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#24. When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.

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#25. When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

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#26. The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

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#27. With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

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#28. When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

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#29. In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

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#30. My strength is my enthusiasm.

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#31. Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

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#32. When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.

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#33. Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

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#34. We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

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#35. It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

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#36. I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

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#37. Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

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#38. On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

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#39. I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

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#40. This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

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#41. But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

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#42. Singing becomes a form of therapy.

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