Top 45 Quotes About Placido Domingo
#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. If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
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#6. To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
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#7. When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session.
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#8. When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
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#9. The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
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#10. With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
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#11. 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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#14. Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.
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#15. When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.
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#16. Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
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#17. We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
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#18. It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.
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#19. I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.
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#20. Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
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#21. 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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#22. I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.
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#23. This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
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#24. But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
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#25. 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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#26. Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
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#30. The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
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#31. The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
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#33. I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
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#34. I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
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#35. Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
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#36. 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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#38. 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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#39. Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
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#40. I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.
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#41. This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.
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#43. I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.
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#45. When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
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