Top 56 Placido Quotes
#1. My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson ... and Placido Domingo.
Josh Young
#2. I got to sing with Placido Domingo ... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.
Linda Ronstadt
#3. Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'
David Harewood
#4. 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.
Placido Domingo
#6. If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
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#7. To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
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#8. When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
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#9. When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
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#10. When I was really young, I got moonstruck by 'Moonstruck.'
Violante Placido
#11. The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
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#12. I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.
Violante Placido
#13. With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
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#14. 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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#17. Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.
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#18. When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.
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#19. When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.
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#20. Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
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#21. We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
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#22. It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
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#23. I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
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#24. Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
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#25. 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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#26. I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.
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#27. As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.
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#28. This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
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#29. But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
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#30. Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
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#32. Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
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#36. My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.
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#37. The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
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#38. The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
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#39. Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to keep on finding new ways of doing it becomes - Hollywood can be avant garde on what concerns action.
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#41. I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
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#42. I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.
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#43. I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
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#44. Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.
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#45. 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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#47. 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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#48. Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
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#50. I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.
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#51. This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.
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#53. I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination.
Violante Placido
#54. I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
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#56. When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
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